NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility recently celebrated the anniversary of its first rocket launch on June 27, 1945. Fast forward 79 years and Wallops has now launched more than 16,000 rockets carrying science experiments, technology, and satellites.
Wallops’ scientific balloon team will wrap its Sweden long-duration balloon campaign in early July. The team will next head to Fort Sumner, New Mexico, for the annual fall balloon campaign beginning this August.
Wallops’ aircraft office team will finish research flights for the East and West Coast cohorts of the Student Airborne Research Program in early July. Next up, the team will deploy to Greenland with both P-3 and C-130 aircrafts – mid-July into August – for the second leg of an Earth Science mission studying Arctic clouds and sea ice.
Back in Virginia, Wallops’ sounding rocket and education teams will support the RockSat-X program, which offers students an opportunity to design, build, and fly an experiment on a Terrier-Improved Malemute sounding rocket. Launch is scheduled for
no earlier than August 13 from Wallops Island. Stay tuned for launch viewing details.
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