Armstrong Space ProjectsResearchers from the University of California, Davis test a CubeSat attitude control technology in microgravity during a parabolic flight in...View of the International Space Station (ISS) with Earth in the backdrop as seen from an approaching vehicle.Sirisha Bandla, Virgin Galactic’s Vice President of Government Affairs and Research Operations, tests a Flight Opportunities-supported payload aboard the SpaceShipTwo...The SHERPA orbital platform from Spaceflight, Inc., will host payloads through the Flight Opportunities program in collaboration with NASA's Small...In this image, World View’s Stratollite high-altitude balloon is inflated on the launch pad in Tucson, Arizona on April 9,...Zandef Deksit’s ExoCam in its metal cageIn a series of flights between June 1 and 6 Stratodynamics Inc. of Lewes, Delaware, launched its HiDRON stratospheric gliderBlue Origin’s New Shepard rocket, which carried payloads supported by NASA’s Flight Opportunities Program, lands on the pad in West...Astrobotic's Xodiac lander completes a flight test at the Mojave Spaceport. Xodiac is a vertical-takeoff, vertical-landing (VTVL) reusable terrestrial rocket.Members of the Orbital Syngas Commodity Augmentation Reactor (OSCAR) team perform ground testing at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida....The team behind the "umbrella-like" deployable heat shield design called ADEPT, or the Adaptable, Deployable, Entry and Placement Technology, is...A research team from the University of Iowa tested their CubeSat Articulated Boom Option Optimization in Microgravity (CABOOM) experiment in...In a series of flights between June 1-6, 2021, Stratodynamics Inc. launched its HiDRON stratospheric glider from a high-altitude balloon...Photographic support for Reduced Gravity Office's Flight Opportunities Program research flight. Group A - Flight 2. Photo Date: July 24,...OSCAR ‘Trash-to-Gas’ technology readied for thermal tests at Kennedy Space Center.A terrain relative navigation system under development by Draper of Cambridge, Massachusetts could be the eyes for the next lunar...Before new landing technologies make it to the Moon, NASA and commercial partners are refining them aboard suborbital rockets that...Masten Space Systems’ Xombie© lander completes a flight test at the Mojave Spaceport. Xombie© represents NASA-sponsored technologies supported by its...World View’s Stratollite Balloon System LaunchReduced Gravity Office's Flight Opportunities Program & Education flight. Flight 3. Photo Date: June 6, 2013. Location: Ellington Field -...Current commercial suborbital spaces launch providers that are under contract for the Flight Opportunities Program.An UP Aerospace rocket launched experiments to flight test for NASA's Flight Opportunities Program from Spaceport America in New Mexico.Technicians fill and prepare a Near Space Corporation high-altitude balloon for a Small Balloon System test flight at the Tillamook...Terminal Velocity Aerospace technicians prepare an orbital entry return capsule for a Small Balloon System test flight aboard a Near...A Near Space Corporation high-altitude balloon lifts a prototype space reentry capsule designed by Terminal Velocity Aerospace into the skies...High-altitude balloon lifts space reentry capsule for flight test.Carthage College researchers testing their propellant mass gauging experiment in zero gravity.Northwestern University researchers gathered data for their foam experiment during parabolic flight.Since the summer of 2011, Made in Space, Inc. chalked up over 30,000 hours of 3D printing technology testing and...Masten's vertical-takeoff, vertical-landing Xombie technology demonstration vehicle rockets skyward during a flight test of Astrobotic Technology's autonomous landing system.Astrobotic Technology's autonomous landing system is mounted atop Masten Space Systems' Xombie vehicle prior to launch from the Mojave Air...Engineering intern Nick Robbins and aerospace engineer Tyler Roberson of Masten Space Systems complete installation of Astrobotic's autonomous landing system...Masten Space Systems' Xaero sub-orbital rocket lifts off in a plume of fire during a test launch from the Mojave...Masten Space Systems technicians maneuver the prototype Xaero launch vehicle onto its pad while it is suspended from a crane...Partially encased in its aeroshell, Masten Space Systems' Xaero rocket stands on its test pad at the Mojave Air and...Masten Space Systems technicians attach a tether to the framework around the nose of Masten's Xaero rocket prior to a...With its tether slackening, Masten Space Systems' prototype Xaero launch vehicle ascends from its test pad at the Mojave Air...Suspended by a tether from a forklift crane, Masten Space Systems' prototype Xaero launch vehicle is gently lowered onto its...Masten Space Systems' prototype Xaero launch vehicle is rotated into position off its transport trailer with the assistance of a...