Orbital Rolls Out Antares Rocket to Launch Pad at Wallops Island For Upcoming Test Flight “Early this morning, Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE: ORB) rolled out the first fully integrated Antares(TM) […]
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Wallops Hangman's Noose Update
NASA WFF Internal Memo: Wallops All-Hands Scheduled April 4 “Center Director Chris Scolese will discuss the findings of an investigation into a recent incident where a noose was discovered in […]
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Hangman's Noose Found at Wallops (Update)
Hangman’s Noose Found at Wallops Flight Facility Construction Site “The American Federation of Government Employees is working to address recent indications of racial harassment at the Wallops Flight Facility (WFF). […]
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Painting The Sky With Lithium
Rocket Launch Colors the Sky Red With Lithium (with photos) “NASA successfully launched a Terrier-Improved Orion suborbital rocket at 5:50 p.m. EST this evening from the Wallops Flight Facility in […]
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Hypersonic Inflatable Heat Shield Test a Success
NASA Successfully Tests Hypersonic Inflatable Heat Shield “A large inflatable heat shield developed by NASA’s Space Technology Program has successfully survived a trip through Earth’s atmosphere while travelling at hypersonic […]
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Commercial Space Watch: Spacecraft Facilities
BRPH: The Old and the New in Spacecraft Facilities, Commercial Space Watch “Switching out a spacecraft maintenance facility is definitely not an easy task. Besides the obvious requirements to contain […]
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Bright Night Skies Over Wallops
NASA Successfully Launches Five Rockets from NASA Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia “NASA successfully launched five suborbital sounding rockets this morning from its Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia as part […]
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Wallops Land Use Food Fight Goes to Congress
Eastern Shore land battle comes to Capitol Hill, Washington Post “In the northernmost county of Virginia’s Eastern Shore sits a quiet, 32-acre parcel of land, thick with grass and little […]
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Another Stealth NASA Rocket Launch (Update)
Scientists Launch NASA Rocket into Aurora, University of New Hampshire “Funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling in the Alfven resonator (MICA) mission sent a […]
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Antares/Cygnus Launch Delayed Until This Summer
Orbital Blames Spaceport for Another COTS Delay, SpaceNews “As was the case with the previous schedule slip, Dulles, Va.-based Orbital placed the blame for the delays squarely on the Virginia […]