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The Wallops Island Launch Site includes six launch pads, three blockhouses for launch control, and assembly buildings to support the preparation and launching of suborbital and orbital launch vehicles. The NASA Wallops Flight Facility Range. The Wallops Research Range includes ground-based and mobile systems, and a range control center.
Operates in partnership with NASA, adjacent to Wallops Flight Facility. Designed for both commercial and government launches. [67] In 2019, Rocket Lab built their first US launch facility here. [68] United States: Mojave Air and Space Port, California
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.
Launch Pad 0 (LP-0), also known as Launch Complex 0 (LC-0), [2] or Launch Area 0 (LA-0), [3] is a launch complex at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) on Wallops Island, Virginia, in the United States. [2] MARS is located right next to the NASA Wallops Flight Facility (WFF), which had run the launch complex until 2003. [4]
[1]: 5 [2] The range has also supported Ariane launches from the Guiana Space Centre as well as launches from the Wallops Flight Facility and other lead ranges. [1]: 7 The range also uses instrumentation operated by NASA at Wallops and KSC. [1]: 12 The range can support launches between 37° and 114° azimuth. [3]
With these foundations in place, the Virginia Space Flight Center was founded, located on the southern portion of NASA Wallops Island. In present-day, the facility is approved for launch azimuths from 38° to 60°, making it an ideal location from which to launch to the International Space Station (ISS). [citation needed]
The visitor center also provides information about current activities at Wallops Flight Facility, such as the sounding rocket, balloon and aircraft program. The outside grounds has a rocket garden consisting of rockets and aircraft used for space and aeronautical research, including a full-scale four-stage reentry vehicle used to study the ...
Last Satellite launch under NRO's Rapid Acquisition of a Small Rocket (RASR) program. First NRO launch on an Electron from Wallops, VA. 21 March 20:55:09 [118] Falcon 9 Block 5: F9-312 Cape Canaveral SLC-40: SpaceX: SpaceX CRS-30: NASA: Low Earth ISS logistics: 30 April 05:38: Successful ⚀ Big Red Sat-1 [119] UN Lincoln: Low Earth: Technology ...