Wallops Flight Facility: A Unique National Asset

Описание: NASA's Wallops Flight Facility provides agile, low-cost flight and launch range services to meet government and commercial sector needs for accessing flight regimes worldwide from the Earth's surface to the moon and beyond. Wallops' flight assets--research aircraft, unmanned aerial systems, high-altitude balloons, suborbital and orbital rockets--coupled with the facility's operational launch range and airfield capabilities provide a full-range of flight services to meet ongoing and emerging needs in the science, aerospace, defense, and commercial industries.

In addition, Wallops is a multi-user/multi-tenant facility in a geographic location ideal for supporting satellite tracking and commanding, military operations and training, scientific investigations, technology development and testing, as well as commercial aerospace. The facility's diverse mission sets and on-site partners, including the U.S. Navy, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Federal Aviation Administration, Virginia Space and the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, is a model for leveraging multi-organizational capabilities and optimizing facility support services.