University faculty and students from across the country will RockOn! with NASA during a workshop June 22 - 27 at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island in Virginia. During RockOn!, they will learn the basics of building experiments for flight on suborbital rockets
NASA explores some of the most far-out parts of space, but NASA also does research much closer to home. In fact, NASA Earth Science satellites are taking part in the management and recovery of an ecosystem right in our own backyard, the Chesapeake Bay.
NASA begins the most extensive field campaign ever to investigate the chemistry of the Arctic's lower atmosphere.
March 1st marks the beginning of the annual model rocket season at NASA Wallops Flight Facility’s Visitor Center. For nearly 25 years, the Visitor Center’s staff has been routinely launching an assortment of low power model rockets for public viewing.
NASA has selected 10 offerors to receive Aircraft Catalog Blanket Purchase Agreements, or BPAs, to provide the agency with access to a variety of airborne platforms to conduct airborne science research and range support including, radar surveillance and telemetry relay capability.
NASA and the National Science Foundation have achieved a new milestone in conducting scientific observations from balloons, by launching and operating three long-duration flights within a single Antarctic summer
NASA and the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) opened a new chapter in the world of hurricane observation by making the first unmanned flight into Hurricane Noel.
A NASA Black Brant IX suborbital sounding rocket was successfully launched at 12:12 a.m., Tuesday, October 30, from the NASA Wallops Flight Facility.
The NASA P-3 Orion Aircraft with a compliment of scientists and support personnel has spent the past several weeks in Greenland in an effort to observe the current state of the Greenland ice-sheet
NASA is expanding a highly successful internship program for undergraduate students.
The NASA Wallops Flight Facility is supporting two NASA suborbital sounding rocket missions from Wallops Island in September.
An Air Force Minotaur 1 rocket was successfully launched at 2:48 a.m. EDT on April 24 from the NASA Wallops Flight Facility.
The Missile Defense Agency, in partnership with NASA and the U.S. Air Force, plans to conduct a rocket launch between 3 and 3:30 a.m., April 23, 2007, from the NASA Wallops Island Facility, Va.
The flight of the SpaceX Falcon 1 launch vehicle on March 21, named Demo2, from the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command’s Reagan Test Site, Omelek Island, Kwajalein Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean was being closely monitored by engineers at the Wallops Flight Facility.
Icarus, a rocket developed by students from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Fla., was successfully launched at 6:15 a.m., March 22, from the Wallops Flight Facility.
The NASA Wallops Flight Facility demonstrated its quick response capabilities with the successful launch December 16 of an U.S. Air Force Minotaur 1 rocket from the east coast of Virginia.
NASA has teamed with Louisiana State University and student groups from four universities for a launch that carried the first flight of the High Altitude Student Platform (HASP) to the near space environment of the upper atmosphere.
Andrew Lange, from the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, and Paolo de Bernardis, from the Universitá di Roma La Sapienza in Rome, received the award from the International Balzan Foundation "for their contributions to cosmology, in particular the BOOMERANG Antarctic balloon experiment."
WHAT: Media pre-mission briefing on the NASA, NOAA, Aerosonde Hurricane Boundary Layer Mission. Media may observe a demonstration flight of the Aerosonde unmanned aerial system.
The NASA Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Va., has been selected by the Space and Missile Systems Center's Detachment 12 as the launch site for the Air Force Research Laboratory's TacSat 2 satellite.