Wallops Island News

Wallops Island, Va. - - There isn't much to see yet at the grandly named Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, just the skeleton of an old launch gantry on a piece of oceanfront leased from the federal government.

WALLOPS ISLAND -- When the Minotaur rocket carrying the TacSat-3 military satellite blasted off last month from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, one of the people who helped it happen was a Saxis native and mother of two whose job is to ensure spaceport customers have everything they need to succeed.

Sen. Barbara Mikulski, Md.-D, participated in a groundbreaking Monday that was the first tangible step in construction of a new launch pad at NASA's Wallops Island facility.

Gubernatorial hopefuls R. Creigh Deeds and Bob McDonnell, in their first back-to-back appearances on the same stage, told Boys State attendees in Lynchburg yesterday that they could improve transportation in Virginia without raising taxes.

Click a thumbnail to view the full-size image. Buy Pilot photos here. Loading... Close Gallery Click for full view A suborbital two-stage Terrier-Orion rocket launched from NASAa s Wallops Flight Facility on the Eastern Shore this morning, carrying the experiments of nearly 100 university instructors and students attending a workshop.

WALLOPS ISLAND --When the Minotaur rocket carrying the TacSat-3 military satellite blasted off last month from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, one of the people who helped it happen was a Saxis native and mother of two whose job it is to ensure spaceport customers have everything they need to succeed.

PRESS RELEASE Date Released: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 Source: Goddard Space Flight Center - Comments WALLOPS ISLAND, Va.

US and Italian companies are teaming up to build a private re-supply ship for the International Space Station .

WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. - The United States Air Force Thunderbirds have been showing off thrilling feats of aerobatics for more than five decades.

STATUS REPORT Date Released: Friday, June 12, 2009 Source: Wallops Flight Facility - Comments The test launch of the Max Launch Abort System, or MLAS from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility has been delayed to no earlier than 20 June due to weather issues.

WALLOPS -- Last week's death of an African leader didn't nail the coffin on a financially ailing Accomack County airplane customizing plant, but it killed any chance for BaySys Technologies to simply collect a $10 million debt from Gabonese President Omar Bongo Ondimba.

Hello, astro-nuts! The countdown for the Endeavour launch began on Wednesday and continues today.

In this off year in the Congressional election cycle, one of the few elections of interest is the Virginia gubernatorial race.

The test is part of an effort to design a system for safely propelling future spacecraft and crews away from hazards on the launch pad or during the climb to orbit.

El Segundo. Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems in El Segundo said Wednesday it received confirmation from the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory that a Raytheon-built sensor was activated in orbit.

Millersville University senior Alex Davies is soaking it up. Davies is among a group of MU students who will be learning about ocean temperature and how to measure currents at Wallops Island, Va., this week but he's already getting a head start.

An Air Force satellite assembled and operated at Kirtland Air Force Base is now in orbit.

Here is a followup and cool video of the TacSat3 satellite launch from Wallops Island in Virginia at the tip of the Delmarva peninsula that occurred on Tuesday night.

If you see a fire in the sky Tuesday night, don't panica its not a UFO. The flying object will actually be an Air Force rocket.

NASA scrubbed its rocket launch Friday night at the Wallops Island launch pad in Virginia when technical problems developed just two minutes before launch time.