Wallops Island News

Republican Bob McDonnell heads toward Election Day with a lead over Democrat Creigh Deeds .

The U.S. Naval Air Systems Command recently demonstrated autonomous operations by multiple "swarms" of unmanned air and ground vehicles, unattended ground sensors, video cameras and other devices linked together in an intelligent network powered by EdgeFrontier platform technologies from Augusta Systems, Inc.

Politics are becoming more volatile then ever. Many Americans go to the voting booths uninformed of many of their candidate's views on issues.

CHINCOTEAGUE -- Delegate Lynwood Lewis had breakfast Saturday morning with about two dozen supporters at the Waterside Inn.

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NASA recently launched its Inflatable Re-entry Vehicle Experiment, a subscale version of an inflatable heat shield or aeroshell, atop a Black Brant 9 rocket from its launching pad on Wallops Island, Va.

Of all the strange ideas I've heard, this tops the list. The amount of catalogued space debris within our planet's orbit increased by nearly 50% since 2007, so DARPA wants to gather ideas for how to clear space junk from Earth's orbit.

U.S. Rep. Glenn Nye wants to improve the relationship between federal laboratories and small businesses.

James Hollopeter of GIT Satellite has a plan for getting rid of orbiting junk . He wants to launch rocket-loads of water into space to create a liquid wall for debris to slam into, so the pieces can slow down and eventually drop out of orbit.

For the second consecutive year, motorcycles and riders involved with the Delmarva Bike Week made their way to Chincoteague Island.

This blog focuses on the nuts-and-bolts of space technology. We're interested in the hardware that's actually going into orbit and beyond.

An eerie cloud that glowed briefly in the night sky on Sept. 19 was no UFO. It was created by humans - more specifically a NASA rocket built to make clouds that shine at night.

NASA says it successfully launched a rocket in Virginia as part of an experiment, and the blast may have caused dozens of people to report seeing strange lights in the sky.

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PRESS RELEASE Date Released: Wednesday, September 9, 2009 Source: Wallops Flight Facility - Comments WALLOPS ISLAND, VA -- A rocket experiment that may shed light on the highest clouds in the Earth's atmosphere will be conducted Sept.

A presidential panel says NASA 's space program is on an "unsustainable trajectory" due to a lack of funding.

WALLOPS ISLAND --The U.S. Navy's Surface Combat Systems Center, Wallops Island, celebrated its 20th anniversary on Aug.

STATUS REPORT Date Released: Sunday, August 30, 2009 Source: Wallops Flight Facility - Comments Synopsis - Aug 25, 2009 General Information Solicitation Number: NNG09309867L Posted Date: Aug 25, 2009 FedBizOpps Posted Date: Aug 25, 2009 Recovery and Reinvestment Act Action: No Original Response Date: Sep 14, 2009 Current Response Date: Sep 14, 2009 ...

NASA have successfully tested a new inflatable heat shield made of silicone-coated Kevlar that can be used in future space missions to help slow down and protect astronauts from the searing heat of re-entry. " NASA launched an inflatable spacecraft heat shield on Monday to test the technology for use on future space missions.

A successful NASA flight test Monday, Aug. 17, demonstrated how a spacecraft returning to Earth can use an inflatable heat shield to slow and protect itself as it enters the atmosphere at hypersonic speeds.