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Launch updates from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility.

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    NASA Wallops to Support Rocket Lab Launch

    Rocket Lab suborbital rocket launches from Pad-0C (Launch Complex 2) on Wallops Island, Virginia, at 8 a.m. on Nov. 18, 2025. The mission was Rocket Lab's sixth launch of its HASTE rocket for the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) and Missile Defense Agency (MDA). Led by MDA, the mission deployed a government-provided primary payload developed by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, and multiple secondary payloads by federal and industry partners, which tested key technologies for missle defense applications.

    A Rocket Lab suborbital rocket is scheduled to launch from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia Feb. 25, during a window extending 4-7 p.m. EST. Backup days are Feb. 26-28, 4-7 p.m. The Wallops Visitor Center will not be open to the public for launch viewing. The rocket launch may be visible from the Chesapeake Bay region. […]

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    NASA Rocket to Conduct ‘CT Scan’ of Auroral Electricity

    On the left side of a snow-covered driveway, a life-size red and white rocket model is posed next to a Poker Flat Research Range sign. Snowy spruce trees line the driveway into the range, where an automated metal gate allows entry. In the distance is a hill, also covered in trees and snow, and sheer clouds filtering golden sunlight.

    UPDATE (Feb. 10, 2026): NASA’s Black and Diffuse Auroral Science Surveyor and Geophysical Non-Equilibrium Ionospheric System Science (GNEISS) sounding rocket missions have both successfully launched from Alaska. The Black and Diffuse Auroral Science Surveyor mission launched Feb. 9 at 3:29 a.m. AKST (7:29 a.m. EST), reaching a peak altitude of about 224 miles (360 kilometers). […]

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