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NASA Rocket Launches Scheduled July 5 – 23
Four NASA suborbital sounding rockets carrying experiments to take measurements in the ionosphere will be launched between July 5 and 23 (including weekends) from NASA’s Launch Range at the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.
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Minotaur Rocket Launched from NASA Wallops
A Minotaur 1 rocket carrying the ORS-1 satellite successfully launched at 11:09 p.m. EDT today from the Wallops Flight Facility and the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in Virginia.
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Minotaur Rocket Launch Re-Scheduled
Wallops officials rescheduled the launch of an United States Air Force Minotaur 1 rocket carrying the ORS-1 satellite to June 29 due to weather.
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NASA Launching Department of Defense Rocket And Satellite From Virginia June 28
An U.S. Air Force Minotaur 1 rocket carrying the Department of Defense’s Operationally Responsive Space office’s ORS-1 satellite is scheduled for launch June 28 from NASA’s Launch Range at the Wallops Flight Facility and the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in Virginia.
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Wallops P-3B Supporting Air Pollution Study
NASA is diagnosing the air we breathe this summer. The Wallops low-altitude P-3B aircraft will be viewable along the I-95/Balt.-Wash. Pkwy during the mission.
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Student Rocket Launched from NASA Wallops
A NASA Terrier-Improved Orion suborbital rocket was successfully launched at 6:17 a.m. EDT June 23 from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.
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NASA Rocket Launch Scheduled for June 23
Seventeen educational experiments will fly June 23 on a Terrier- Improved Orion suborbital sounding rocket from NASA’s Launch Range at the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.
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Students and Educators Attending NASA's Rocket University
NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia will become Rocket University June 18 - 25 as nearly 125 high school educators and university students and instructors spend the week learning about rocketry and conducting science experiments in space.
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Rocket Launch Completed from NASA Wallops
A NASA Terrier-Improved Orion suborbital rocket was successfully launched at 7:16 a.m. EDT June 10 from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.
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Rocket Launch Rescheduled from NASA Wallops
The launch of a Terrier-Improved Orion sounding rocket will resume between 7 and 10 a.m., Friday, June 10, after the vehicle failed to ignite.
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NASA Rocket Scheduled June 9
A test of several new rocket technologies will be conducted June 9 on a Terrier- Improved Orion suborbital sounding rocket from NASA’s Launch Range at the Wallops Flight Facility.
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NASA Demonstrating SMART Technology Through Rocket Mission
A new microsatellite designed to give scientists less expensive access to space will be demonstrated during a NASA Terrier-Improved Orion suborbital sounding rocket flight between 7 and 10 a.m., June 9, from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.
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Three Universities Accepting NASA Rocketry Challenge
Teams from three universities in the southeastern United States will step up to the launch pad May 21 to meet NASA’s rocketry challenge to fly to 10,000 feet and survive a water recovery.
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NASA and University of Alaska-Fairbanks Hosting Environmental Public Meetings
NASA and the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute are hosting public meetings to prepare an environmental impact statement (EIS) for the NASA Sounding Rockets Program operations at the University’s Poker Flat Research Range near Fairbanks.
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NASA Offers Students And Teachers Flight Experiences
Students and educators nationwide will have the opportunity to interact with NASA engineers and scientists through two newly developed NASA flight initiatives.
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NASA Proposes Solar Power for Renewable Energy at Wallops
NASA has proposed the installation of up to 80 acres of solar panels on the Wallops Flight Facility Main Base through an environmental assessment of alternative energy at the facility.
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A New Era of Space Exploration at Wallops
NASA ushered in a new era of exploration at Wallops with a ceremony opening the new Horizontal Integration Facility.
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Wheels Up For NASA Mission's Most Extensive Arctic Ice Survey
Researchers and flight crew arrived in Thule, Greenland, on Monday, March 14, for the start of NASA's 2011 Operation IceBridge, an airborne mission to study changes in Arctic polar ice.
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Wallops Seeks Public Comment on Main Base Entrance Changes
NASA is seeking comments from the public on its draft Environmental Assessment (EA) of potential impacts from proposed improvements at the Wallops Flight Facility main base entrance.
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NASA Unveiling New Rocket Integration Facility At Wallops
NASA will unveil its new rocket integration facility at the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia during a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 10 a.m. EDT on March 22.