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Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport
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The Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) is a commercial space launch facility located at the southern tip of NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island in Virginia, just east of the Delmarva Peninsula and south of Chincoteague, Virginia, United States. It is owned and operated by the Virginia Spaceport Authority.
The Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport and, in the background, NASA's Wallops Flight Facility as seen in September 2012.
The Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport and, in the background, NASA's Wallops Flight Facility as seen in September 2012.
The launch Pad 0A with Antares rocket. At left is a water tower for supplying water for sound suppression.
The launch Pad 0A with Antares rocket. At left is a water tower for supplying water for sound suppression.
The launch pad 0B with Minotaur V rocket in September 2013.
The launch pad 0B with Minotaur V rocket in September 2013.
Wallops Flight Facility
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Wallops Flight Facility (WFF) is a rocket launch site on Wallops Island on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, United States, just east of the Delmarva Peninsula and approximately 100 miles (160 km) north-northeast of Norfolk. The facility is operated by the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and primarily serves to support science and exploration missions for NASA and other Federal agencies. WFF includes an extensively instrumented range to support launches of more than a dozen types of sounding rockets; small expendable suborbital and orbital rockets; high-altitude balloon flights carrying scientific instruments for atmospheric and astronomical research; and, using its Research Airport, flight tests of aeronautical research aircraft, including unmanned aerial vehicles.
NASA Wallops Flight Facility, 2010.
NASA Wallops Flight Facility, 2010.
Envisioned Future Range Architecture
Envisioned Future Range Architecture
Launch of the Little Joe booster from Wallops Island, to test the Project Mercury capsule, 1960.
Launch of the Little Joe booster from Wallops Island, to test the Project Mercury capsule, 1960.
NASA Visitor Center at Wallops Flight Facility
NASA Visitor Center at Wallops Flight Facility