Wallops Flight Facility
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Wallops Flight Facility 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 north-northeast of No
Wallops Flight Facility, 2010
The NASA Wallops Mobile Range instrumentation has been deployed to support launch events in dozens of locations around the world.
Envisioned Future Range Architecture
Launch of the Little Joe booster from Wallops Island, to test the Project Mercury capsule, 1960.
Sounding rocket
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A sounding rocket or rocketsonde, sometimes called a research rocket or a suborbital rocket, is an instrument-carrying rocket designed to take measurements and perform scientific experiments during it
Wallops Flight Facility
…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…
A Black Brant XII being launched from Wallops Flight Facility
Sample payloads for sounding rockets
A Loki-Dart (foreground) on display at the White Sands Missile Range rocket garden