Flight Opportunities Image GalleryView the Flight Opportunities image gallery for highlights from flight tests over the years.The Varda W-4 capsule that launched via SpaceX into low Earth orbit on June 23, 2025. The shield protecting the...NASA’s technical support helped Varda manufacture the C-PICA tiles now in orbit as part of the W-4 capsule.Transporter 14 during Varda's Winnebago-4 launchThe World View high altitude balloon sit waiting to launch the TechRise Student Challenge payloads.The Spyder hypersonic launch vehicle blasts off at White Sands Missile Range on June 13, 2025.NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center worked closely with UP Aerospace on the design, development, and testing of the third and...Mason Maloney (foreground) and Tom Conboy from Creare LLC monitor their experiment in zero gravity on the May 5, 2025... As part of a series of tethered and free-flight tests in April and May 2025, algorithms developed by San Diego...PlanetVac is a pneumatic device that attaches to the leg of a lander vehicle and enables fast, simple, and reliable...The PlanetVac device, show here, is a pneumatic device that attaches to the leg of a lander vehicle and enables...The launch of the RadPC (Radiation-Tolerant Computing) technology on the Raven Aerostar Thunderhead high-altitude balloon system on 7/21/2021 out of...A LuGRE (Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment) flight test aboard an UP Aerospace sounding rocket on Oct. 1, 2024, demonstrated the... Launched from Hurley, South Dakota, an Aerostar International high-altitude balloon flew over several contained and controlled burns carrying three technologies...Launch of Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital rocket system on Feb. 4, 2025. During the flight test, the capsule at... With support from NASA’s Flight Opportunities program, Astrobotic tested an engineering model of its hazard detection lidar sensor over the...Interlune engineers Lexi Humann (left) and Alex Lewandowski (right) with a prototype of Interlune's regolith processing device on a parabolic...New Shepard clears the tower on the way to space during NS-27. (October 23, 2024) Flight testing of the technologies developed by the three winners of NASA’s TechLeap Nighttime Precision Landing Challenge takes place on...The FIGARO technology prepares for launch on the Aerostar high-altitude balloon from Baltic, South Dakota on September 26, 2024.World View high-altitude balloon carrying the ARMAS and CubeSounder technologies prepares to launch on August 31, 2024, from Page, Arizona.During an August 29, 2024, commercial suborbital flight supported by NASA’s Flight Opportunities program, University of Florida’s Rob Ferl conducted...(L to R) Dr. Andrew O’Connor and Dr. Louise Littles of NASA Marshall along with Ohio State Univ. Ph.D. student...Phillips Academy student works on experiment to fly on the World View high-altitude balloon.Payloads from Purdue University (top) and the University of California, Berkeley, installed on Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity for flight testing...A research team from Redwire tests the fluidics of a pharmaceutical in-space laboratory aboard Zero Gravity Corporation’s G-Force One on...New Shepard’s booster lands on the pad at Blue Origin’s Launch Site One in West Texas on December 19, 2023,...An Aerostar stratospheric balloon carrying the SOLD payload prepares to launch on August 30, 2023.Parabolic flight campaigns provided testing aboard the G-FORCE ONE May 9-12 and 16-17, 2022.In the foreground we have two team members adjusting controls for a technology that examines electrostatic resonance in liquid metals-...Mother and satellite droplet formation during zero-gravity pipette withdrawal. Researchers from Carthage College tested their noninvasive propellant gauging technology designed to facilitate the transfer and storage of cryogenic propellants... During flight tests in March and April of 2024, Auburn University researchers gathered data on plume-surface interaction in reduced and...Astrobotic's Xodiac lander completes a flight test at the Mojave Spaceport. Xodiac is a vertical-takeoff, vertical-landing (VTVL) reusable terrestrial rocket.Students from 20 middle and high schools watched as their experiments launched aboard a high-altitude balloon on June 14, 2023,...Researcher Ben Gorr of the SEAK Lab at Texas A&M University prepares the SNAP technology payload for flight testing on...Researchers from MIT conduct microgravity experiments to develop computational fluid dynamics (CFD) models to support designing optimal propellant systems for...In a project led by Purdue University and supported by NASA TechFlights, researchers test various health care-related technologies in microgravity...Sara Jennings, chief executive officer of Orion Labs and team lead for the company’s TechLeap project, works on a payload...Virgin Galactic VSS Unity Release
