🇺🇸Wallops Flight Facility
Wallops Island, Virginia, United States
Country
🇺🇸 United States
Region
North America
Established
1945
Launches / Year
10-15
Coordinates
37.9402° N, 75.4664° W
About
Wallops Flight Facility is NASA's oldest launch range, originally established for aeronautics research. Located on Virginia's Eastern Shore, it serves as the launch site for Northrop Grumman's Antares rocket carrying Cygnus cargo to the ISS, and Rocket Lab's Electron rocket from LC-2. It also supports a high volume of sounding rocket missions.
Key Features
NASA's principal facility for suborbital research programs
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 for Electron missions
Northrop Grumman Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport for Antares/Cygnus
Supports 30+ sounding rocket launches per year
One of the oldest continuously operating launch ranges in the world
Rockets That Launch Here
Companies Operating Here
Orbit Types
Notable Launches
Cygnus CRS missions — Regular ISS cargo resupply flights
LADEE (2013) — Lunar atmosphere and dust experiment
Electron HASTE missions — Hypersonic testing for DoD
RockSat-X — Student-built suborbital payloads
Black Brant sounding rockets — Decades of atmospheric research