National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Wallops Flight FacilityBill Wrobel, Director

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April 11, 2017

• Awaiting launch in Wanaka, New Zealand• Thus far, weather at ground and surface levels have

prevented launch attempts

Super Pressure Balloon

Operation IceBridge

• Team deployed to Thule Air Base, Greenland

• First P-3 Operation IceBridge mission with new wings and tail

• Approximately 140 hours flown thus far in support of OIB

Sounding Rockets• Completed successful Poker Flat

campaign• Four launches, three within a two

hour period• Studied Auroras and interactions of

solar winds with Earth’s upper atmosphere

Upcoming Missions from Wallops• Subtec 7: May 2• Payload Ampule Testing

Demonstration: May 23• RockOn: June 22• ASPIRE: August 1• RockSat-X: August 15

Upcoming Missions

• Antares will return to Wallops in late summer/early fall 2017• 2 Antares missions on schedule for 2018• A Minotaur I (pictured right) has been scheduled to launch from Wallops in 2018

New Facilities

North Wallops Island Fire Station slated for completion in Summer

2017

New Facilities

Mission Operations Command Center completion targeted for late Spring/Early summer 2017.

Questions?