Electrical engineer Scott Hesh works on a sub-payload canister at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility near Chincoteague, Virginia.

That’s because NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Virginia—from where the “Atmospheric Perturbations Around The Eclipse Path” project’s rockets will blast-off off—is ...

For decades, NASA's Scientific Balloon Program, managed by NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, has used balloons to carry science payloads into the atmosphere. Weather balloons carry ...

Firefly Aerospace expects to start launching its Alpha rocket from launch sites in Virginia and Sweden as soon as 2026 to ...

Caption NASA's Global Hawk 872 known as GH872 departed from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Va., at 8:41 a.m. on Aug. 20, 2013. This was the first take off controlled by the ...

While many are excited about the upcoming total solar eclipse, NASA has another reason for excitement. https://www.wavy.com/news/local-news/nasa-to-launch-3-sounding ...

Wallops chosen as Electron’s first U.S. launch ... It’s Business Time launch in November followed in December by the NASA ELaNa-19 (Educational Launch of Nanosatellites – 19) mission.

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NASA and Rocket Lab are entering a new era with Neutron, a rocket including 3D printed parts that will fly in mid-2025.

As part of the announcement, university officials and representatives from NASA's Goddard Space Center and Wallops Flight Facility discussed a curriculum aimed at training the next generation of ...

NASA developed and tested a 3D-printed antenna to demonstrate a low-cost capability to communicate science data to Earth. The antenna, tested in flight using an atmospheric weather balloon, could open ...