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	Sky-High Hopes for Future of Wallops: Va., Md. Officials Foresee Busy Niche for Launch Facility - Space - RedOrbit
		With good weather, the morning flight of the 69-foot, four-stage Minotaur I rocket should be visible for hundreds of miles as it rises to place two satellites into an orbit 254 miles high.
		The Wallops Flight Facility is best known for its work with sub-orbital rockets and balloons, mostly for government-sponsored military, science and weather research.
		Wallops is also one of just five federally licensed sites for commercial launches to orbit, and the Virginians were the first to recognize its commercial potential.
	www.redorbit.com /news/space/743465/skyhigh_hopes_for_future_of_wallops_va_md_officials_foresee/index.html?source=r_space (1430 words)

	Goddard Space Flight Center - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) is a major NASA space research laboratory established on May 1, 1959 as NASA's first space flight center.
		The Magnetics Test Facility, located in a magnetic-quiet area, uses large coil magnets operated from a single control building to calibrate and align both instrumentation and spacecraft attitude control systems, and determine of the dipole moment of spacecraft.
		The Wallops Flight Facility located in Wallops Island, Virginia was established in 1945, and is one of the oldest launch sites in the world.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Goddard_Space_Flight_Center (1441 words)

	Wallops Flight Facility Item @ LaunchBase.com (Launch Base) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The WFF mobile range assets have been used to support rocket launches from locations in the Arctic and Antarctic regions, South America, Africa, Europe, Australia, and even at sea.
		The Wallops Visitor Center has a variety of hands-on exhibits and it hosts weekly educational activities and programs designed to enable children to explore and learn about the technologies designed and used by NASA researchers and scientists.
		The NASA Wallops Research Range is like a “Wind Tunnel in the Sky”, providing benefits to the scientific and experimental launch vehicle communities, and offering test support to enable development and testing of space exploration systems and technologies.
	www.launchbase.com /encyclopedia/Wallops_Flight_Facility (1494 words)

	Wallops Flight Facility: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Nasas goddard space flight center (gsfc), located in greenbelt, maryland, is a major space science laboratory....
		A sub-orbital spaceflight (or sub-orbital flight) is a spaceflight that does not involve putting a vehicle into orbit....
		Wallops expects an increase in commercial launch activity in the very near future.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/w/wa/wallops_flight_facility.htm (759 words)

	NASA EAARL Lidar Test at Wallops Flight Facility
		John Brock, Damaris Torres-Pulliza, and Georgia De Stoppelaire traveled to the NASA Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia to participate in performance tests of the NASA Experimental Airborne Advanced Research Lidar (EAARL) (Figure 1).
		Cessna 310 aircraft in the hanger at Wallops Flight Facility undergoing modification for EAARL installation.
		A future development goal for EAARL is to enable the pre-programming of flight waypoints and instrument operation.
	soundwaves.usgs.gov /2001/04 (638 words)

	NASA - Wallops Island - 60 Years of Exploration
		In the 1970s, Wallops expanded its research role as it became a NASA center and was renamed Wallops Flight Center.
		Wallops played a key role in the development of using instruments for use on satellites to measure sea topography.
		In 1981, Wallops became a part of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and was renamed the Wallops Flight Facility.
	www.nasa.gov /vision/earth/everydaylife/wallops_60th.html (905 words)

	Aerosonde - Article
		This was the second flight of a Piccolo avionics controlled Aerosonde UAV from Wallops.
		The initial facility establishment has been completed and the first flight tests are scheduled for the week of 16 November to establish the range qualifications for the Aerosonde.
		The flights showed the ability of the small UAV to operate from the runways of the NASA Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Va., fly a predetermined flight mission and gather scientific data.
	www.aerosonde.com /drawarticle/81 (3043 words)

	NASA Facts
		NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Wallops Flight Facility, located on Virginia's Eastern Shore, was established in 1945 by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, as a center for aeronautic research.
		The research and responsibilities of Wallops Flight Facility are centered around the philosophy of providing a fast, low cost, highly flexible and safe response to meet the needs of the United States' aerospace technology interests and science research.
		During this time, Wallops was instrumental in providing the foundation for aerodynamic and heat transfer research through establishing a high speed aeronautical launch site that used rockets to propel aircraft models.
	www.gsfc.nasa.gov /gsfc/service/gallery/fact_sheets/general/wallops/wallops.htm (728 words)

	NASA Wallops Flight Facility
		The NASA WFF complements our combat systems with a large number of additional capabilities such as an extended launch range, a research airport, and several launch-related services.
		Wallops Range Safety predicts appropriate ship and aircraft hazard areas for launch operations that are coordinated with appropriate regulatory agencies for each mission.
		Capability is available at Wallops Island for the Navy to conduct exercises that exceed the capability and safety margins of other ranges.
	www.scsc.navy.mil /mission/nasawff.htm (294 words)

	Major Launch At Wallops Should Be Visible In Ocean City (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		All systems are go for a planned major rocket launch at Wallops Island this month, the most significant launch from the NASA facility in over 10 years, and the spectacular sight should be visible from Ocean City and the surrounding areas.
		Obviously, the best places to watch the launch are in and around the Wallops facility itself with several areas designated for the purpose, but the spectacle should be visible all over the coastal areas of Maryland and Virginia including Ocean City and Assateague, according to Koehler.
		The launch is considered a return to prominence of sorts for the Wallops Island Flight Facility and could signal an expanded use of the facility in the future.
	www.mdcoastdispatch.com /wallops120106.html (693 words)

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		The Wallops Flight Facility mission is to further scientific, educational and economic advancement by providing the facilities and expertise to enable frequent flight opportunities for a diverse customer base.
		Wallops is recognized as a role model for pioneering productive and innovative government, industry and academic partnerships.
		Wallops promotes the development of a commercial orbital launch complex that supports small- to medium- class launch requirements.
	stemrc.aihec.org /NASASRE/wallops/default.aspx (176 words)

	GeneSat - 1 Technology Demonstration Mission
		Wallops manages an array of research carriers, including sounding rockets, scientific balloons, science aircraft, UAVs, and small satellite launch systems for experimenters conducting science, education and technology research.
		Wallops provides operational support, including a launch range (in cooperation with the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport), a research airport, and orbital tracking stations.
		In addition to flight projects, Wallops is home to scientists conducting earth science research, and engineers developing technologies for lower-cost space access and improved research carriers.
	www.crestnrp.org /genesat1/wallops.html (135 words)

	Wallops Island
		Liquid storage Facilities are available for the temporary storage of hazardous liquids, such as propellants and purging gasses.
		Facilities also are available for the nondestructive testing of ordnance and rocket motors.
		On Wallops Island, there are two rocket motor storage facilities -- one for Class 1.1 rocket motor storage and an above-ground storage facility on the north end for the storage of all classes of rocket motors.
	www.fas.org /spp/guide/usa/facility/wallops.htm (471 words)

	CCT Project Spotlight
		New Methods for Telemetry and Command Definition - CCT is conducting NASA sponsored research to provide an advanced data description exchange approach for space/spaceport systems that will provide a generic platform independent software capability for exchange of semantic control and monitoring information.
		Range Data Acquisition for Wallops Flight Facility - Engineers at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility are upgrading their range data acquisition and control infrastructure.
		Intelligent Launch and Range Operations Testbed - CCT and NASA have developed a concept and prototype for an advanced "testbed" facility for investigating new space transportation and operational concepts that could reduce operations cost and complexity of future launch vehicles.
	www.cctcorp.com /spotlight.html (568 words)

	NASA Visitor Center at Wallops Flight Facility
		The Visitor Center at NASA Wallops Flight Facility provides an educational and fun experience for visitors of all ages.
		Rocket launches at WFF can be difficult to view due to the small size of some sounding rockets.
		Rocket launches can be viewed from WFF Visitor Center grounds during operation hours or from south-facing areas on Chincoteague and Assateague islands in Virginia.
	sites.wff.nasa.gov /vc (414 words)

	Environmental Management System Web Portal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		This facility's EMS attempts to incorporate all mission-support activities that may impact the environment, covering the areas of air and water quality, energy use, waste management, noise and much more.
		It is the leadership's goal, as outlined in the Environmental Policy, that protection of the environment be enhanced by keeping environmental impacts associated with mission-support activities to the minimum in a sustainable, cost-effective and technically feasible manner.
		This publicly accessible website will be used to communicate important information about the NASA Wallops Flight Facility's EMS to our stakeholders and other interested parties.
	www.nasa-wallops-ems.org (321 words)

	WFF TOPEX (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Wallops Flight Facility (GSFC/WFF) was responsible for specifying and providing the dual-frequency altimeter (ALT) which is the prime instrument for the TOPEX/Poseidon mission.
		The ALT hardware was developed and built for GSFC/WFF by the Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory.
		Within the GSFC Hydrospheric and Biospheric Sciences Laboratory, the WFF TOPEX group has been continuously involved in altimeter design studies and data analysis from the middle 1970's through the present time.
	topex.wff.nasa.gov (879 words)

	Spacecraft
		The VTSRP launch date is getting closer; the launch window opens on March 14, and will remain open for about one week.
		flight where he "got dirt all over the plastic spaceship." The university gave the event a lot of publicity.
		He was supposed to arrive on Monday evening and be here all day, including a tour of our Space Systems Simulation Lab.
	www.aoe.vt.edu /~cdhall/Space (769 words)

	Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		These include a summary written by Richard Mewaldt of the California Institute of Technology, a Scientific American article, references in the Encyclopedia Britannica on Cosmic Rays and Supernova as well as Funk and Wagnalls Knowledge Center articles on Cosmic Rays and Supernova.
		Sites on Scientific Ballooning include that of the National Scientific Balloon Facility (NSBF) as well as a site at the NASA Wallops Flight Facility (WFF).
		While not necessarily directly related to the ATIC program, one of our favorite site for current articles on space research is Science@NASA which is sponsored by the Science Directorate at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center.
	atic.phys.lsu.edu /aticweb/links.htm (300 words)

	Wallops Island, Wallops Flight Facility Airport, , Local Weather
		Wallops Island, Wallops Flight Facility Airport, United States
		Wallops Island, Wallops Flight Facility Airport, VA Weather Forecast
		Sacramento, CA Wallops Island, Wallops Flight Facility Airport Forecast and Conditions
	www.weatherforyou.com /weather/KWAL.html (193 words)

	Code 614/Wallops Flight Facility (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Hydrospheric and Biospheric Sciences Laboratory, NASA GSFC/Wallops Flight Facility
		The Mission of the Hydrospheric and Biospheric Sciences Laboratory is to explore and understand the Earth's hydrosphere and biosphere, and the linkages between the oceans, land, atmosphere and life on Earth.
		Wallops scientists primarily support the The Cryospheric Sciences Branch (614.1), Ocean Sciences Branch (614.2), and Instrumentation Sciences Branch (614.6).
	science.wff.nasa.gov (227 words)

	AirNav: KWAL - Wallops Flight Facility
		In this space we feature lodging establishments that are convenient to the Wallops Flight Facility.
		If your hotel/inn/B&B/resort is near the Wallops Flight Facility, provides convenient transportation, or is otherwise attractive to pilots, flight crews, and airport users, consider listing it here.
		Distances are approximate, and may vary depending on the actual route traveled and the location of the travel start on the airport.
	www.airnav.com /airport/KWAL (440 words)

	NASA Wallops Flight Center
		NASA Wallops Flight Facility, Goddard Space Flight Center
		The NASA Wallops Flight Facility is a UAV COE focusing principally on the Aerosonde UAV.
		In the 2006 spending bill for NASA Congress has approved $4,000,000 for infrastructure upgrade at NASA's Wallops Island facility for new plant and equipment including UAV hangers and support operations.
	www.uavm.com /uavcenters/nasawallops.html (53 words)

	NASA Wallops Flight Facility Trip Report: Cameron Wade \| SpaceRef - Your Space Reference
		NASA Wallops Flight Facility Trip Report: Cameron Wade
		At Wallops, we found out that the sounding rocket should launch on Thursday morning.
		NASA Wallops Flight Facility Trip Report: Billy Shannon
	www.spaceref.com /news/viewnews.html?id=1134 (981 words)

	SPACE.com -- Software Glitch Delays Commercial Spaceport's First Launch
		An Orbital Sciences Minotaur rocket stands poised to launch the TacSat-2 satellite in the first ever orbital space shot from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Virginia.
		Peck described the problem as an “anomaly with the spacecraft flight software.'' That problem, first discovered Sunday night, would have prevented one of the satellites from getting enough power in space to conduct all its experiments.
		The Virginia Commercial Space Flight Authority, a state agency created in 1995, built the launch pad in 1998 on land leased from NASA on Wallops Island on Virginia's Eastern Shore peninsula.
	www.space.com /missionlaunches/061211_minotaur_wallops_scrub.html (530 words)

	Airports in Virginia - Wallops Flight Facility (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		OneSky works with the finest air carriers to deliver a nationwide network of over 420 private jets.
		The following list of turbo props and private jets are either based at Chincoteague Wallops or in close proximity to Chincoteague Wallops.
		All flights are operated by FAA Certified Part 135 air carriers.
	www.onesky.com /airports/Airports_VA_WAL.html (90 words)

	WFF GLAS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The GLAS instrument is on the Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat).
		The GLAS SDT is managed by the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA.
		Use the "Documents" link on the left side of the page to view these documents.
	glas.wff.nasa.gov (427 words)

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