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NASA Wallops Supports Department of Defense Rocket Launches

sounding rocket taking off in the background with another sounding rocket on a rocket launcher in the foreground.
NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility supported the launch of three suborbital sounding rocket the evening of October 20 for the Navy Strategic Systems Programs and the Army Hypersonic Program Office.

NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility supported the launch of three suborbital sounding rocket the evening of Oct. 20, 2021, for the Navy Strategic Systems Programs and the Army Hypersonic Program Office.

The High Operational Tempo for Hypersonics flight campaign was executed by Sandia National Laboratories. The test will be used to inform the development of the Navy’s Conventional Prompt Strike and the Army’s Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon offensive hypersonic strike capability.

The next rocket launch from Wallops is a NASA sounding rocket mission targeted for January 2022.

Image Credit: NASA Wallops/Allison Stancil

Keith Koehler,
NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia