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NASA's Balloon Program Prepares for Antarctic Campaign
NASA’s Balloon Program Office based at Wallops Flight Facility is preparing for the annual winter Antarctic Campaign in McMurdo Station, Antarctica. This year’s campaign features three missions: Super-TIGER, EBEX, and BLAST-Pol.
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PhoneSat Flight Demonstrations
NASA's PhoneSat project will demonstrate the ability to launch the lowest-cost and easiest to build satellites ever flown in space – capabilities enabled by using off-the-shelf consumer smartphones to build spacecraft.
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Climate Change Impact on the Eastern Shore Program at NASA Visitor Center
The impact of future climate change on the Eastern Shore and possible strategies for adaptation will be the subject of a public presentation at 6 p.m., November 13 at the NASA Wallops Flight Facility Visitor Center.
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Talkin' Turtles with NASA Environmental Engineers
As one could imagine, there are many variables involved in successfully completing NASA’s mission. One factor that sometimes isn’t immediately thought of when thinking of those variables is environmental impacts.
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NASA Supporting Test Flight of Commercial Rocket from Wallops
NASA has postponed the test flight of a commercial suborbital rocket scheduled for November 7 from the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia because of expected poor weather in the region the next few days.
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A Next-Generation X-Ray Telescope Launches
On November 2, a NASA mission called FOXSI was launched from White Sands, New Mexico to study nanoflares on the sun.
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Wallops Completes Initial Assessment After Hurricane Sandy
WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. – An initial assessment team surveyed roads and facilities at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility today reporting a number of downed trees but otherwise minimal impact in the wake of Hurricane Sandy.
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Hurricane Sandy Updates
During Hurricane Sandy, you will be able to visit this site for updated information from the Wallops Emergency Operations Center.
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Bermuda Tracking Site Provides Big Boost for Wallops Expendable Launch Vehicle Operations
Following an agreement signed between NASA and Bermuda in early March 2012, range officials at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility have recently completed the successful deployment and check-out of a temporary mobile tracking station on Cooper’s Island, Bermuda.
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Schmidlin Retires after Six Decades of Service
When Frank Schmidlin began his federal career, the President was Harry S. Truman, gas was twenty cents per gallon, and Gene Kelly was “Singin’ in the Rain.”
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NASA Visitor Center Celebrating Autumn
The public is invited to celebrate the change of seasons and observe the night sky from 6:30 - 10:00 p.m., October 27, at the NASA Wallops Flight Facility Visitor Center.
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Wallops Supporting NASA's Operation IceBridge as Antarctica Flights Resume
Scientists and flight crew members with NASA's airborne mission to study Earth's polar ice are beginning another Antarctic campaign.
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ProtoEXIST Launches from New Mexico
The final mission in the 2012 Ft. Sumner Scientific Balloon Campaign took place October 10 with the successful flight of the mission ProtoEXIST from Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
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Draft EIS Ready for Review on NASA's Sounding Rocket Program at Poker Flat
NASA is requesting agencies, organizations and members of the public review and provide comments on a draft environmental impact statement for NASA’s Sounding Rockets Program at the Poker Flat Research Range, Alaska.
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Wallops C-23 Sherpa returns from 6-month science mission in Alaska
The NASA C-23 Sherpa aircraft, operated by Goddard Space Flight Center’s Wallops Flight Facility, returned home Oct. 8 from a successful six-month science campaign out of Fairbanks, Alaska.
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HS3 Mission Thoroughly Investigates Long-Lived Hurricane Nadine
NASA's Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel scientists had a fascinating tropical cyclone to study in long-lived Hurricane Nadine, making 5 flights over the storm.
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Scientific Balloons Creating a Buzz with WASP
Engineers at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility here have taken the task of staying on point quite literally—down to the arc second.
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Images from Antares Rollout to Pad
The Antares rocket rolled out to the launch pad at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on the morning of Oct. 1, 2012.
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Antares Rolls Out
Orbital Sciences Corporation’s Antares rocket rolls out to the launch pad at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on the morning of Oct. 1, 2012. Over the next several months, Orbital plans a hot-fire test ...
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Cutting-Edge Technology Makes NASA's Hurricane Mission a Reality
Scientists are currently flying state-of-the-art, autonomously operated instruments to gather difficult-to-obtain measurements of wind speeds, precipitation, and cloud structures in and around tropical storms.