NASA Wallops to Support Sounding Rocket Launch

By NASA | Created at 2024-09-25 20:26:00 | Updated at 2024-09-30 05:21:41 4 days ago
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Aerial view of NASA's Wallops Flight Facility's launch range structures along the coastline of Wallops Island, Virginia. Ocean, bay and marsh lands surround the range.

This September 2024 aerial photograph shows the coastal launch range at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia’s Eastern Shore. Wallops is the agency’s only owned-and-operated launch range.

Courtesy Patrick J. Hendrickson; used with permission

NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia is scheduled to support the launch of a suborbital sounding rocket for the Department of Defense during a launch window that runs 1:45 to 6:30 p.m. EDT each day from Sept. 26 to 30. 

No real-time launch status updates will be available and the launch will not be livestreamed. 

The rocket launch may be visible from the Chesapeake Bay region.

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