Flight OpportunitiesThe Varda W-4 capsule that launched via SpaceX into low Earth orbit on June 23, 2025. The shield protecting the...Transporter 14 during Varda's Winnebago-4 launchUpon its return to Earth on February 27, 2025, Varda’s W-2 capsule was protected by a NASA-produced C-PICA heat shield,...NASA’s technical support helped Varda manufacture the C-PICA tiles now in orbit as part of the W-4 capsule.The World View high altitude balloon sit waiting to launch the TechRise Student Challenge payloads.NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center worked closely with UP Aerospace on the design, development, and testing of the third and...The Spyder hypersonic launch vehicle blasts off at White Sands Missile Range on June 13, 2025.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...Launched from Hurley, South Dakota, an Aerostar International high-altitude balloon flew over several contained and controlled burns carrying three technologies...Interlune engineers Lexi Humann (left) and Alex Lewandowski (right) with a prototype of Interlune's regolith processing device on a parabolic...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...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...PlanetVac is a pneumatic device that attaches to the leg of a lander vehicle and enables fast, simple, and reliable...A LuGRE (Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment) flight test aboard an UP Aerospace sounding rocket on Oct. 1, 2024, demonstrated the...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.(L to R) Dr. Andrew O’Connor and Dr. Louise Littles of NASA Marshall along with Ohio State Univ. Ph.D. student...During an August 29, 2024, commercial suborbital flight supported by NASA’s Flight Opportunities program, University of Florida’s Rob Ferl conducted...Flight testing of the technologies developed by the three winners of NASA’s TechLeap Nighttime Precision Landing Challenge takes place on...Phillips Academy student works on experiment to fly on the World View high-altitude balloon.Fulton Hotshots and Smith River Hotshots are seen here working together on an early morning firing operation. This is on...Payloads from Purdue University (top) and the University of California, Berkeley, installed on Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity for flight testing...During flight tests in March and April of 2024, Auburn University researchers gathered data on plume-surface interaction in reduced and...Researchers from Carthage College tested their noninvasive propellant gauging technology designed to facilitate the transfer and storage of cryogenic propellants...A research team from Redwire tests the fluidics of a pharmaceutical in-space laboratory aboard Zero Gravity Corporation’s G-Force One on...Pictured here from left to right, Zephyr Proffitt and Tayah Day of Red Mountain High School in Mesa, Arizona work...New Shepard’s booster lands on the pad at Blue Origin’s Launch Site One in West Texas on December 19, 2023,...The Purdue University team prepares for their Sept. 12-14, 2023, flight test on Exos Aerospace’s SARGE BLK3 platform. The paint...VSS Unity rocket motor burn on #Unity22NASA's Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator, or LOFTID, launched Nov. 10, 2022, to demonstrate inflatable heat shield...Students from 20 middle and high schools watched as their experiments launched aboard a high-altitude balloon on June 14, 2023,...Sara Jennings, chief executive officer of Orion Labs and team lead for the company’s TechLeap project, works on a payload...In a project led by Purdue University and supported by NASA TechFlights, researchers test various health care-related technologies in microgravity...
