Thousands of visitors flocked to the Wallops area, April 8th, and witnessed, not only a solar eclipse, but three successful sounding rocket launches from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility for a mission studying disturbances in our upper atmosphere during an eclipse.
Wallops Sounding Rockets team successfully launched two rockets, April 17, from Poker Flat Research Range in Fairbanks, Alaska, for missions studying solar flares.
Wallops Education team is seeking high school educators to apply for the Wallops Rocket Academy for Teachers program, which provides participants with technical flight experience that reinforces STEM concepts. Participants will build and launch model rockets, learn about safe launch operations and more. To apply, visit: www.nasa.gov/wallops/stem.
Wallops Aircraft team heads to Greenland this May with NASA’s P-3 Orion aircraft to support an Earth Science mission studying Arctic clouds and sea ice.
The Scientific Balloon team is headed north of the Arctic Circle to Kiruna, Sweden, for its long-duration balloon campaign, starting in May. Four football-stadium sized balloons carrying science missions and technology demonstrations are scheduled to launch from the polar region and traverse the Atlantic Ocean from Sweden to Canada.
To find out more about what’s up at Wallops, visit nasa.gov/wallops and follow Wallops on Facebook, Instagram and X.
