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Wallops Flight Facility

NASA's Wallops Flight Facility is the agency's only owned and operated launch range.

This June 2021 aerial photograph shows the coastal launch range at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia's Eastern Shore. The...
Aerial view of the coastal launch range of Wallops Flight Facility, showing a blue Atlantic Ocean on the right; white buildings along a tan coastline back up to a green, marshy landscape
NASA Engineer Cindy Fuentes Rosal waves goodbye to a Black Brant IX sounding rocket launching from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility...
Cindy Fuentes Rosal, wearing a light-blue jacket with the words "Rocket Scientist" in white on the back, faces away from the camera with her hand in the air. In the background is a sounding rocket launching from a launch pad with a thick white trail of smoke underneath.
A NASA super pressure balloon takes to the skies on a potentially record-breaking, around-the-world flight, from Wanaka, New Zealand.
Super Pressure Balloon launches
Rocket Lab's Electron rocket launched from Launch Complex 2 located on Wallops Island, Virginia, Jan. 24, 2023.
A nighttime photography of a black and white rocket just seconds launching off a launch pad, with a plume of bright white smoke just underneath.
The U.S. Navy is conducting a Field Carrier Landing Practice (FCLP) detachment operation at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility with more...
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The Orbital Sciences Corporation Antares rocket, with the Cygnus cargo spacecraft aboard, is seen as it launches from Pad-0A of...
The Antares rocket launching from Pad-0A with a bright white plume underneath against a mostly clear blue sky. A large water tower is stands to the left.
On Friday, September 7, at 9:30 a.m., a parachute test for a future mission to Mars successfully launched on a...
A sounding rocket launches with a bright white plume underneath against a clear, pale blue sky.
Wallops Range personnel participate in a mission dress rehearsal.
A photo of a group of three people taken from the side sitting at a long desk. The closest person is a women with long, light-brown hair wearing a grey sweatshirt and a headset and smiling. To her left is another women with long, light-brown hair with a floral shirt and a headset working at a laptop. To her left is a black man with a light-blue button down dress shirt and headset looking down at paperwork.
An aerial of NASA's Wallops Flight Facility's main base and airfield.
An aerial photo of Wallops Flight Facility's main base, which has two criss-crossing air strips surrounded by green marshlands.
A NASA Super Pressure Balloon just before launch from Wanaka, New Zealand, March 26, 2015, on a journey that will...
A crane is leading a scientific balloon before launch. The balloon is to the right, and appears an a plastic, upside down teardrop. A tube attached to the top of the balloon leads down to the ground where a number of personnel are holding it. To the left, a crane holding a large payload structure with many solar panels is attached to the end of the balloon.
NASA Terrier-Improved Malemute rocket launched at 6:09 p.m.. EDT, as part of the RockSat-X program designed for students to learn...
In the foreground, a line of people stand at a safe distance away from a sounding rocket launching in the background. The rocket is just off the pad with a plume of fire and smoke underneath.
P-3 and C-130 depart from Wallops Flight Facility destined to missions in Greenland and Sweden.
A white plane, with a blue strip down the side, blue NASA meatball logo in the front, and red NASA worm logo on the tail fin takes off from a runway, kicking up a dust cloud of bright green pollen just as it takes off. A green treeline is in the background and a concrete portion of the runway in the foreground, with a grass strip separating the runway from the concrete.
The newly remodeled Wallops Flight Facility Range Control Center is seen during the countdown for the Antares OA-8 launch on...
A large control room with wide screen of monitors with different views. There are three rows of desks, all with monitors at each station. There is another row of desks with monitors toward the bottom of the image. People are stationed throughout the control center.
The Northrop Grumman Antares rocket, with Cygnus resupply spacecraft onboard, launches from Pad-0A of NASA's Wallops Flight Facility, Saturday, November...
A large group of people, some holding up cellphones, watches the Antares rocket launching in the distance.
NASA's Scientific Balloon Program is back in Wanaka, New Zealand, for another flight test of its super pressure balloon, or...
NASA’s Scientific Balloon Program is back in Wanaka, New Zealand, for another flight test of its super pressure balloon, or SPB, technology to support science missions for longer flight durations, with flights running up to 100 days. (NASA/Wallops Flight Facility).
A Black Brant IX launched with the ASPIRE payload aboard on March 31, 2018. The payload contained a parachute that...
A sounding rocket seconds in mid-launch off the launch pad with a bright white plume underneath. The rocket, from bottom to top, has yellow fins on the bottom, a white body section, black fins, a black body section, than an alternating silver and purple section with a silver cone-shaped top. In the background is a clue blue sky.
The De Leon mission launched with three experiments aboard a Terrier-Improved Orion sounding rocket on March 7, 2016. The mission...
A sounding rocket attached to a launcher. The rocket, from bottom to top, has yellow fins on the bottom, a white body section, bright yellow fins, a dark green section, a silver body section then a red body section, and then a silver cone-shaped top.
A Northrop Grumman Antares rocket carrying a Cygnus resupply spacecraft is seen as it is rolled out of the Horizontal...
A white Northrop Grumman Antares rocket is rolled horizontally to the launch pad. A green and white road sign in front of the rocket reads "International Space Station On-ramp" with an arrow pointing to the launch pad.
NASA's P-3 Orion returns to the Wallops Flight Facility after receiving a major overhaul encompassing the replacement of the wings,...
The P-3 Aircraft is a white plane with a blue strip going down the middle of the plane. An older version of a NASA logo is on the tail. The words NASA are blue crossed by a red, V-shaped swoosh. The plane is on a runway with its propellers spinning before takeoff.
A scientific balloon is partially inflated before flight.
A scientific balloon is partially inflated in the shape of a teardrop in front of a bright orange sunset.
NASA image captured December 25, 2011 A NASA scientific balloon awaits launch in McMurdo, Antarctica. The balloon, carrying Indiana University's...
A teardrop-shaped scientific balloon being prepared for launch on a snowy landscape.