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NASA's Global Hawk and Satellites See Tropical Storm Nadine Turning Around
Tropical Storm Nadine is turning around in two ways. When NASA's Global Hawk flew over the storm it learned that the storm was not transitioning into an extra-tropical storm.
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NASA successfully tests new launch vehicle from WFF
WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. – NASA successfully tested a new suborbital sounding rocket today, Sept. 22, from the agency’s launch range at the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.
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Images from Sept. 21 RockSat-X launch
WALLOPS ISLAND, VA – NASA successfully launched four university experiments this morning on a Terrier-Improved Malemute suborbital sounding rocket from the agency’s launch range at the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.
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RockSat-X launches; next launch Sept. 22
WALLOPS ISLAND, VA – NASA successfully launched four university experiments this morning on a Terrier-Improved Malemute suborbital sounding rocket from the agency’s launch range at the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.
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NASA Plane Helps Develop New Science Instruments
Over the next few weeks, an ER-2 high altitude research aircraft will take part in the development of two future satellite instruments.
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NASA Launching Two Rockets September 21 and 22 from Wallops
NASA will launch two suborbital sounding rockets September 21 and 22 from the agency’s launch range at the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.
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International Observe the Moon Night at the Wallops Visitors Center Sept. 22
WALLOPS ISLAND, VA--In celebration of International Observe the Moon Night, NASA's Wallops Flight Facility, in partnership with the Sussex County Astronomy Society, is sponsoring a free, public event from 6:30 to 10 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 22, at the NASA Visitor Center.
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Wallops Pilot Flies for Science
NASA research pilot Rich Rogers flies low, cool, slow, and true; especially while flying science missions over remote and sometimes very cold areas of our planet.
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NASA Global Hawk Attends Tropical Storm Nadine's 'Birth'
Tropical Depression 14 strengthened into Tropical Storm Nadine while NASA's Hurricane Severe Storm Sentinel Mission, or HS3 mission, was in full-swing and NASA's Global Hawk aircraft captured the event.
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Wallops Unveils New Badging Office
The Wallops security office is processing deliveries and issuing visitor and permanent party badges out of its new badging office, Bldg. N. 1, located on Atlantic Rd. just south of the main base gate.
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NASA's Global Hawk Investigating Atlantic Tropical Depression 14
A new tropical depression in the Atlantic seems primed to grow, and NASA's Global Hawk Drone left Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia this morning to investigate.
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Scientific Balloon Launches from New Mexico
The fall 2012 Scientific Balloon campaign continued September 9, with a successful scientific balloon flight out of Fort Sumner, N.M.
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NASA's Hurricane Mission Takes Flight
NASA has begun its latest hurricane science field campaign by flying an unmanned Global Hawk aircraft over Hurricane Leslie in the Atlantic Ocean during a day-long flight from California to Virginia
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High-Altitude Suborbital Rocket Launch Delayed
NASA will conduct a test flight of a Talos-Terrier-Oriole suborbital sounding rocket from the agency’s launch range at the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.
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NASA Rocket Launch Rescheduled
NASA will launch a Terrier-Improved Malemute suborbital sounding rocket carrying university student developed experiments from the agency’s launch range at the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.
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Wallops' New Beach
A new beach at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility won’t be attracting day-trippers, bronzing bodies or surfers, but rest assured, it’s a gem in its own right.
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NASA Rocket Mission Carrying University Student Experiments
University students will put their academic skills to the test when atmospheric and technology experiments they developed fly on a NASA suborbital sounding rocket.
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Two Hurricane Global Hawks, Two Sets of Instruments
HS3, will study hurricanes at the end of the summer, flying two high-altitude, long-duration unmanned aircraft with different instruments over the storms.
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Massey Wins NASA College Scholarship Fund Award
Olivia Massey, daughter of Wallops employee Caroline Massey, is a recipient of the 2012 NASA College Scholarship Fund Award.
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Hurricane Mission Topic of NASA Visitor Center Presentation
An upcoming mission to study the development of Atlantic hurricanes using unmanned aerial vehicles basing at the NASA Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia will be the topic of a public presentation at 3 p.m., Tuesday, August 14, at the facility’s NASA Visitor Center.