Showing posts with label NASA Wallops Flight Facility. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NASA Wallops Flight Facility. Show all posts
Saturday, August 29, 2026

On the drawing board: Wallops launch facility changes-

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 (Shore Daily News) It is considering moving its suborbital programs from about 150 acres on the south side of Wallops Island to make room f...

The long road to curbing Wallops erosion-

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 (WHRO) (View news story) Wallops seeks permit to curb erosion as Chincoteague Inlet project gets key approval
Thursday, August 20, 2026

Accomack stepping back from Wallops name change-

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 (Shore Daily News) (View news story) Accomack Supervisors withdraw resolution to rename launch site at Wallops - Shore Daily News The Easte...
Wednesday, July 22, 2026

Wallops name clarification-

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  (Shore Daily News) The Accomack County Board of Supervisors is clarifying that its proposal honoring Eastern Shore native A. Thomas “Tom” ...
Monday, July 20, 2026

No name change advocated for Wallops-

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  (The Accomack County Board of Supervisors passed a resolution favoring renaming the Wallops Flight Facility in honor of Eastern Shore nati...
Thursday, July 16, 2026

Name change for Wallops Flight Facility?

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  (Shore Daily News) The Accomack County Board of Supervisors passed a resolution Wednesday to request that the Wallops Flight Facility be r...
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Thursday, June 11, 2026

(UPDATE) Thursday Wallops launch did not proceed.

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Thursday's scheduled Wallops launch was put on hold with no rescheduling yet announced. (previous post)  (Shore Daily News) Mission deta...
Friday, May 22, 2026

Thumbs up for Wallops under NASA realignment-

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    “NASA announced Friday an agencywide realignment to increase mission focus and move out on the National Space Policy. These changes posi...
Tuesday, May 12, 2026

Wallops launch operations under new chief-

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 (Shore Daily News) NASA has appointed former chief of staff Brian Hughes as senior director of launch operations, a newly created role that...
Saturday, February 28, 2026

NASA Wallops represented in Annapolis-

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(From State Senator Mary Beth Carozza's weekly press release) 
Monday, February 16, 2026

Upcoming Rocket Lab Wallops launch-

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 (Shore Daily News) ‘ That’s Not A Knife’ is Rocket Lab’s latest hypersonic test mission for the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) on its HASTE ...
Tuesday, January 13, 2026

$339.8 million Wallops launch range contract awarded-

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  (View news story:) NASA selects Virginia company to run launch operations at Wallops | Virginia | thecentersquare.com
Thursday, January 8, 2026

Sigh of relief for Wallops?

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  (Shore Daily News) In a significant reversal for the nation’s space agency, NASA’s science programs have been spared from a catastrophic “...
Wednesday, September 24, 2025

Consolidation at Wallops--

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  (View Shore Daily News story:) Wallops and Goddard to consolidate into fewer buildings at each site - Shore Daily News
Wednesday, August 27, 2025

Sounding rockets launched-

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  NASA's Wallops Flight Facility 8/27/25 LIFTOFF X3❗️The TOMEX+ sounding rockets launched in succession starting at 10:43 ET.  This miss...
Thursday, August 21, 2025

Wallops Director gives a thumbs-up assessment-

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 (Shore Daily News) The Director of NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility, David Pierce, addressed the Accomack County Board of Supervisors on Wedn...
Thursday, August 7, 2025

Wallops Visitor Center on the chopping block?

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  (WBOC) WALLOPS ISLAND, VA - An email sent Monday, Aug 4 notified employees of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and Wallops Flight Facili...
Thursday, July 17, 2025

(UPDATED) More good news for Wallops.. MAYBE-

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  (Eastern Shore Post) Proposed federal budget cuts for NASA that would impact the Wallops Flight Facility were beaten back by a U.S. Hou...
Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Thumbs up news for Wallops!

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 (Shore Daily News) Northrop Grumman is investing $50 million into Firefly Aerospace to speed their joint production of the Antares 330 rock...
Monday, June 16, 2025

Trump budget.. bad vibes for our NASA Wallops?

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 (Shore Daily News) Changes are underway that could impact operations at the Wallops Flight Facility... Agency wide email warns staff of pot...