Flight Opportunities Image GalleryView the Flight Opportunities image gallery for highlights from flight tests over the years.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...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 ReleaseHigh-altitude balloons are one type of suborbital test vehicle available to researchers through commercial providers with support from NASA TechFlights.VSS Unity rocket motor burn on #Unity22World View’s Stratollite high-altitude balloon is inflated on the launch pad in Tucson, Arizona on April 9, 2022. Researchers at...Flight preparation: The Orion Labs team makes final hardware checks on their Quantum Earth Observation payload prior to launch. From...Virgin Galactic Makes Space for Second Time in Ten Weeks with Three on BoardFlight Opportunities-supported researcher Dr. Anna-Lisa Paul prepares her payload ahead of its flight aboard Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo in July 2021.Zachary Gaines, a rising senior in Cal Poly Pomona’s Bronco Space Lab, points out the camera and sensor used in...Sirisha Bandla, Virgin Galactic’s Vice President of Government Affairs and Research Operations, tests a Flight Opportunities-supported payload aboard the SpaceShipTwo...A research team from University of California – Davis tested reaction wheels for CubeSats on parabolic flights in December 2021....Zandef Deksit’s ExoCam in its metal cageNew Shepard (NS-14) lifts off from Blue Origin’s Launch Site One in West Texas.Graduate students Zach Estlack (left, University of Utah) and Matin Golozar (University of California -- Berkeley) load the “Lab on...Masten Space Systems vertical takeoff vertical landing rocket launched September 10, 2020 to flight test NASA-licensed Psionic navigation doppler lidar...Space Foundry CEO and co-founder Dr. Ram Prasad Gandhiraman (left) and CTO and co-founder Dr. Dennis Nordlund operate the company’s...Orion Labs’ Quantum Earth Observatory launches on an Aerostar high-altitude balloon from the company’s facility in Sioux Falls, South Dakota...Researcher in a parabolic flight conducting research.Before new landing technologies make it to the Moon, NASA and commercial partners are refining them aboard suborbital rockets that...Just over two months since its first venture to suborbital space, Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo is set to fly again and...UP Aerospace SpaceLoft rocket launched into space Sept 12, 2018 from Spaceport America in New Mexico carrying three NASA technologies...Payload racks inside New Shepard Crew CapsuleUP Aerospace SpaceLoft rocket launched into space Sept 12, 2018 from Spaceport America in New Mexico carrying three NASA technologies...Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket sits on the launch pad under an early morning cloud filled sky in West Texas.Zero Gravity Corporation’s G-FORCE ONE aircraft sits on the runway at Orlando Sanford International Airport in Florida.World View's March 2018 flight for Flight Opportunities brought together two sensor payloads in order to help researchers validate their...
