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Wallops Flight Facility

US
gov civilFounded 1945
Wallops Island, Virginia, United States
www.nasa.gov/centers/wallops/
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Wallops Flight Facility conducts high-altitude balloon flights carrying scientific instruments for atmospheric and astronomical research.

Mentioned as: wallops flight facilityTechnical ProductSep 28, 2025Rocket Lab’s HASTE to test hypersonic technology on suborbital flight for government’s top secret JUSTIN mission

Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, USA, has been the site for 81 rocket launches.

Mentioned as: Wallops Flight FacilityTechnical ProductSep 28, 2025Rocket Lab’s HASTE to test hypersonic technology on suborbital flight for government’s top secret JUSTIN mission

Wallops Flight Facility is operated by the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Mentioned as: Wallops Flight FacilityOrg RelationshipSep 28, 2025Rocket Lab’s HASTE to test hypersonic technology on suborbital flight for government’s top secret JUSTIN mission

Wallops Flight Facility includes an extensively instrumented range to support launches of more than a dozen types of sounding rockets and small expendable suborbital and orbital rockets.

Mentioned as: wallops flight facilityTechnical ProductSep 28, 2025Rocket Lab’s HASTE to test hypersonic technology on suborbital flight for government’s top secret JUSTIN mission

The forecast for September 29, 2025, in Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA, calls for a temperature of 71°F, overcast clouds, 100% cloud cover, and a wind speed of 11 mph.

Mentioned as: Wallops Flight FacilityTechnical ProductSep 28, 2025Rocket Lab’s HASTE to test hypersonic technology on suborbital flight for government’s top secret JUSTIN mission

Wallops Flight Facility uses its Research Airport for flight tests of aeronautical research aircraft, including uncrewed aerial vehicles.

Mentioned as: Wallops Flight FacilityTechnical ProductSep 28, 2025Rocket Lab’s HASTE to test hypersonic technology on suborbital flight for government’s top secret JUSTIN mission

Wallops Flight Facility is a rocket launch site on Wallops Island on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, United States.

Mentioned as: Wallops Flight FacilityTechnical ProductSep 28, 2025Rocket Lab’s HASTE to test hypersonic technology on suborbital flight for government’s top secret JUSTIN mission

NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility posted on social media that a suborbital launch was planned between 2024-11-21 and 2024-11-25.

Mentioned as: Wallops Flight FacilityNarrative GeneralNov 25, 2024Rocket Lab launches two Electrons within 24 hours

All four HASTE missions for Leidos will launch from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 at Virginia’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport within NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility.

Mentioned as: Wallops Flight FacilityOrg RelationshipNov 24, 2024Rocket Lab’s HASTE suborbital launch vehicle soars testing hypersonic test launch capabilities

The 2024-11-24 launch was performed by HASTE, a vehicle derived from the two-stage orbital-class expendable Electron, from Pad 0C (Rocket Lab LC-2) within NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility.

Mentioned as: Wallops Flight FacilityOrg RelationshipNov 24, 2024Rocket Lab’s HASTE suborbital launch vehicle soars testing hypersonic test launch capabilities

All four HASTE missions for Leidos will launch from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 at Virginia’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport within NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility.

Mentioned as: Wallops Flight FacilityOrg RelationshipNov 21, 2024Rocket Lab Leidos 2/HASTE mission on hold “delayed and not happening”

The mission STP-S30 is projected to launch in 2026 on a Rocket Lab Electron small launcher from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at NASA Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.

Mentioned as: Wallops Flight FacilityOrg RelationshipApr 8, 2024Rocket Lab wins $14.4 million contract to launch Space Test Program experiment

The Atmospheric Perturbations around Eclipse Path (APEP) sounding rockets will launch from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia to study disturbances in the ionosphere created when the Moon eclipses the Sun.

Mentioned as: Wallops Flight FacilityOrg RelationshipMar 26, 2024NASA to launch sounding rockets into the Moon’s shadow during solar eclipse

The public can watch the APEP launches in person at the NASA Wallops Flight Facility Visitor Center from 1:00 until 4:00 p.m. on the day of the launches.

Mentioned as: Wallops Flight FacilityNarrative GeneralMar 26, 2024NASA to launch sounding rockets into the Moon’s shadow during solar eclipse

Rocket Lab will launch the NROL-123 mission from Launch Complex 2 at NASA Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia on Thursday, 2024-03-21 at 02:40 EDT.

Mentioned as: Wallops Flight FacilityOrg RelationshipMar 19, 2024Rocket Lab’s Thursday ‘Live and Let Fly’ mission is first launch for NRO

STORIES of Space Mission 01 launched on 2023-08-01 on an Antares rocket from NASA Wallops Flight Facility aboard a Northrop Grumman Cygnus spacecraft.

Mentioned as: Wallops Flight FacilityNarrative GeneralFeb 26, 2024STORIES of Space Partners with Maritime Launch Services for a Spaceport Nova Scotia mission

Rocket Lab operates three launch pads at two launch sites, including two launch pads at a private orbital launch site in New Zealand and a third launch pad in Virginia.

Mentioned as: Wallops Flight FacilityTechnical ProductFeb 20, 2024Rocket Lab’s upcomig Electron mission is to deploy an Earth-Imaging satellite for Synspective

NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility provides outreach opportunities for youth through a residential space adventure camp each summer operated with the Virginia Space Flight Academy.

Mentioned as: Wallops Flight FacilityOrg RelationshipJan 1, 2024NASA Wallops signs Space Act Agreement to support STEM outreach

Sandia National Laboratories and NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility supported the launch of two suborbital sounding rockets on 2023-11-15.

Mentioned as: wallops flight facilityTechnical ProductNov 22, 2023NASA Wallops supports hypersonic rocket launches

A three-stage sounding rocket launched from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia on 2023-11-15.

Mentioned as: Wallops Flight FacilityNarrative GeneralNov 22, 2023NASA Wallops supports hypersonic rocket launches
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