NASA Visitor Center (Wallops Flight Facility) | Wikipedia audio article
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00:00:47 1 History
00:01:07 2 Exhibits
00:01:42 3 Image gallery
00:01:51 4 See also
00:02:03 5 Notes
00:02:12 6 External links
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The Wallops Flight Facility Visitor Center is located in Building J-17, Wallops Island, Virginia, United States along Route 175. It contains exhibits highlighting past missions conducted at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility. The visitor center also provides information about current activities at Wallops Flight Facility, such as the sounding rocket, balloon and aircraft program. The outside grounds has a rocket garden consisting of rockets and aircraft used for space and aeronautical research, including a full-scale four stage reentry vehicle used to study the Earth's atmosphere. In addition, the visitor center has educational programs on Earth and space science. It is also a viewing area for rocket launches.
TOUR Of Rocket Launch Pad AT NASA Wallops Island
Visiting NASA Rocket Launch Pad 0a at Wallops island as part of NASA social. Get to see NG-11 Antares Rocket carrying Cygnus Space craft on Apr-17-2019.
As part of NASA social we get to visit wallops visitor center, wallops pad 01, whats on board briefing and horizontal flight facility.
Launch Pad 0, Pad 0 or LP-0, also known as Launch Complex 0, Launch Area 0 or LA-0, is a launch complex at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) on Wallops Island, Virginia in the United States. MARS is located adjacent to NASA's Wallops Flight Facility (WFF).
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Wallops Island Launch Disaster 10/28/2014 Very Intense HD
Full length HD video of launch & crash of the Antares rocket from the closest public viewing location. (Approximately 1.5 miles away shot on iPhone 6)
This is a video of my family's experience. Truly once in a lifetime experience, I hope. I apologize for the language, it was quite scary & very intense.
Rocket was built by Orbital Sciences and launched by NASA at Wallops Island VIrginia. It crashed back to earth after about 12 seconds. The fireball and shockwave were extraordinary.
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NASA WALLOPS ISLAND LAUNCH FACILITY 1960s SOUNDING ROCKET LAUNCHES 42854
Made in the 1960s, this NASA produced television show Science Reporter shows activities at the Wallops Flight Facility located on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, United States, approximately 100 miles (160 km) north-northeast of Norfolk, including launches of sounding rockets and missiles. This includes the Scout. The original Scout (an acronym for Solid Controlled Orbital Utility Test system) was designed in 1957 at the NACA Langley center. Scout launch vehicles were used from 1961 until 1994. To enhance reliability the development team opted to use off the shelf hardware, originally produced for military programs.
The film also shows work by Penn State University researchers at the 6:30 mark, with researchers who are studying the ionosphere, and features an interview with a member of Argentina's sounding rocket program at 11:30. At 16:14 the rocket blockhouse at Wallops is shown.
For over 40 years the Sounding Rocket Program has provided critical scientific, technical, and educational contributions to the nation's space program and is one of the most robust, versatile, and cost-effective flight programs at NASA.
Sounding rockets carry scientific instruments into space along a parabolic trajectory. Their overall time in space is brief, typically 5-20 minutes, and at lower vehicle speeds for a well-placed scientific experiment. The short time and low vehicle speeds are more than adequate (in some cases they are ideal) to carry out a successful scientific experiments. Furthermore, there are some important regions of space that are too low for satellites and thus sounding rockets provide the only platforms that can carry out measurements in these regions.
Wallops is operated by the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, primarily as a rocket launch site to support science and exploration missions for NASA and other Federal agencies. WFF includes an extensively instrumented range to support launches of more than a dozen types of sounding rockets, small expendable suborbital and orbital rockets, high altitude balloon flights carrying scientific instruments for atmospheric and astronomical research and—using its Research Airport—flight tests of aeronautical research aircraft including unmanned aerial vehicles.
There have been over 16,000 launches from the rocket testing range at Wallops since its founding in 1945 in the quest for information on the flight characteristics of airplanes, launch vehicles, and spacecraft, and to increase the knowledge of the Earth's upper atmosphere and the environment of outer space. The launch vehicles vary in size and power from the small Super Loki meteorological rockets to orbital-class vehicles.[3][4][5]
The Wallops Flight Facility also supports science missions for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and occasionally for foreign governments and commercial organizations. Wallops also supports development tests and exercises involving United States Navy aircraft and ship-based electronics and weapon systems in the Virginia Capes operating area, near the entrance to the Chesapeake Bay. In addition to its fixed-location instrumentation assets, the WFF range includes mobile radar, telemetry receivers, and command transmitters that can be transported by cargo planes to locations around the world, in order to establish a temporary range where no other instrumentation exists, to ensure safety, and to collect data in order to enable and support suborbital rocket launches from remote sites.
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 at sea. Workers at Wallops include approximately 1,000 full-time NASA civil service employees and the employees of contractors, about 30 U.S. Navy personnel, and about 100 employees of NOAA.
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The NASA Wallops Flight Center - Space Documentary
Wallops Flight Facility, located on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, United States, approximately 100 miles north-northeast of Norfolk, is operated by the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, primarily as a rocket launch site to support science and exploration missions for NASA and other Federal agencies.
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This Island Called Wallops
This film provides an overview of activities on Wallops Island, where the Wallops Flight Facility -- one of the oldest launch sites in the world -- tracking stations, long-range radar, and data processing capabilities made it a center for the support of space science research and development into orbital and sub-orbital payloads.
National Archives and Records Administration - ARC 1257126, LI 255-HQ-137 - This Island Called Wallops - Series: Headquarters' Films Relating to Aeronautics, compiled 1962 - 1981.
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Sarah at the NASA Wallops Flight Facility - Wallop's Island
Sarah talks about an anticipated launch operation at NASA Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Isalnd, VA.
Wallops Flight Facility Visitor Center | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
00:00:55 1 History
00:01:16 2 Exhibits
00:01:55 3 Image gallery
00:02:04 4 See also
00:02:17 5 Notes
00:02:25 6 External links
Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago.
Learning by listening is a great way to:
- increases imagination and understanding
- improves your listening skills
- improves your own spoken accent
- learn while on the move
- reduce eye strain
Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone.
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Voice name: en-AU-Wavenet-D
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
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The Wallops Flight Facility Visitor Center is located in Building J-17, Wallops Island, Virginia, United States along Route 175. It contains exhibits highlighting past missions conducted at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility. The visitor center also provides information about current activities at Wallops Flight Facility, such as the sounding rocket, balloon and aircraft program. The outside grounds has a rocket garden consisting of rockets and aircraft used for space and aeronautical research, including a full-scale four stage reentry vehicle used to study the Earth's atmosphere. In addition, the visitor center has educational programs on Earth and space science. It is also a viewing area for rocket launches.
Updated Video: C-2/E-2 Wallops Island FCLPs
The Wallops Visitor Center video (previously had 5,000 plus hits) has been updated to highlight a carrier landing, an FCLP landing at Wallops, and then a composite or overlay of the two landings. This video is used at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (Wallops Island) to explain the training, highlight it's importance, and provide historical perspective for Navy flight operations at the field,. The new composite footage appears at the four-minute mark of this video clip. The Naval Safety Center studio assisted CNAL in making this revised version. The previous version has received several thousand hits.
Virginia Senator Keane Visits Wallops Flight Facility, Tours Damaged Antares Pad
ATREX LAUNCH
WALLOPS ISLAND, VA -- NASA successfully launched five suborbital sounding rockets this morning from its Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia as part of a study of the upper level jet stream.
The first rocket was launched at 4:58 a.m. EDT and each subsequent rocket was launched 80 seconds apart.
Each of the rockets released a chemical tracer that created milky, white clouds at the edge of space. The launches and clouds were reported to be seen from as far south as Wilmington, N.C.; west to Charlestown, W. Va.; and north to Buffalo, N.Y.
The Anomalous Transport Rocket Experiment (ATREX) mission will gather information needed to better understand the process responsible for the high-altitude jet stream located 60 to 65 miles above the surface of the Earth.
More information on the ATREX mission is available on the Internet at:
Antares Rocket Explodes! Wallops Island, VA NASA 10/28/14
Launch of Antares Rocket explodes 6 seconds after lift off at Wallops Island, VA First hand cell phone footage of the event from 1 mile away at Arbuckle. Just after ignition and lift off you can tell that things aren't going as planned and then the rocket begins to explode and fall back to the launch pad. The Shockwave after was tremendous. Fire afterward quickly takes over the area surrounding the launch site. Thankfully no one hurt or killed.
Antares Rocket Explosion at NASA Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia
The failed NASA launch and explosion of the Orbital Antares rocket on October 28, 2014 at 6:22 p.m. on Wallops Island near Chincoteague, Virginia. This hand-held footage was shot one mile away and the blast wave from the explosion knocked me flat at 00:43. The video is a little shaky because I was simultaneously operating two DSLRs at the time.
Wallops Island Antares rocket launch - Gargatha Landing VA
AMAZING VIDEO: Antaras rocket explodes after launch in Wallops Island, Virginia
Incredible video captured by Great Escape Productions shows Orbital Science Corp.'s Antares rocket exploding just moments after liftoff from NASA's launch complex at Wallops Island, Virginia. It was carrying 5,000 pounds of experiments and equipment for NASA, and was bound for the International Space Station.
No one was injured in the explosion. Full story:
Additional credit to The Wallop Island Report and Riding Around Delmarva.
NASA Wallops - Terrier Improved Orion Suborbital Rocket Launch - Drexel University RockSat!
WALLOPS ISLAND, VA -- The launch of a NASA Terrier-Improved Orion suborbital rocket was successfully conducted at 6:17 a.m. EDT today from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The launch was carrying 17 experiments developed by university instructors and students from across the United States.
The goal of Drexel RockSat 2011 was to experimentally determine the feasibility of a despun platform under high acceleration and turbulence, driven by a low power system. This platform provides a stable platform with respect to the exterior environment to accommodate any future experiments that require a constant frame of reference in an ascending rocket or object. The RockOn Terrier Orion rocket provides a very suitable platform for such feasibility study.
Team : Dr. Jin Kang, Swapnil Mengawade, Swati Maini, Joe Mozloom, Linda McLaughlin, Eric Marz.
nufosmatic 19 Sep 2009 Wallops Island Missile Sightings on NUFORC
The National UFO Sighting Mapping, Analysis, and Tracking Integration Cybersite (NUFOSMATIC) maps UFO sightings from the National UFO Reporting Center on a map of the United States and the border provinces of Canada. This video a flap which can be attributed to a missile launched from Wallops Island, Virginia, on 19 Sep 2009. Many people saw something in the sky that was unfamiliar. This is some of the most congested airspace in the world, and these people knew that that wasn't an airliner or an airplane or a helicopter or a fighter jet or Air Force One out on a joy ride.
Videos regarding this launch can be found here:
More stuff on the site. This is the SEQUENCE plot which will let you zoom in on a region of the map and actually display the sighting report from NUFORC. We've just added a Forums for discussion of sightings found on the maps! Be sure to visit and the other links on the site. Have fun. Look to the sky. Let us know what you see...
Wallops Flight Facility | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
00:02:50 1 History
00:05:56 2 Facilities
00:06:50 2.1 Airspace
00:07:29 2.2 Fixed facilities
00:11:00 2.3 Mobile systems
00:12:09 3 Range technology development
00:13:51 4 Missions
00:15:22 5 Commercial spaceport
00:15:49 6 Visitor center
00:16:42 6.1 Education
00:17:55 7 Accidents
00:20:40 8 Alliances
00:21:49 9 Image gallery
00:21:58 10 See also
Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago.
Learning by listening is a great way to:
- increases imagination and understanding
- improves your listening skills
- improves your own spoken accent
- learn while on the move
- reduce eye strain
Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone.
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Speaking Rate: 0.8705755377556625
Voice name: en-US-Wavenet-A
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
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Wallops Flight Facility (WFF) (IATA: WAL, ICAO: KWAL, FAA LID: WAL), located on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, United States, approximately 100 miles (160 km) north-northeast of Norfolk, is operated by the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, primarily as a rocket launch site to support science and exploration missions for NASA and other Federal agencies. WFF includes an extensively instrumented range to support launches of more than a dozen types of sounding rockets; small expendable suborbital and orbital rockets; high-altitude balloon flights carrying scientific instruments for atmospheric and astronomical research; and, using its Research Airport, flight tests of aeronautical research aircraft, including unmanned aerial vehicles.
There have been over 16,000 launches from the rocket testing range at Wallops since its founding in 1945 in the quest for information on the flight characteristics of airplanes, launch vehicles, and spacecraft, and to increase the knowledge of the Earth's upper atmosphere and the environment of outer space. The launch vehicles vary in size and power from the small Super Loki meteorological rockets to orbital-class vehicles.The Wallops Flight Facility also supports science missions for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and occasionally for foreign governments and commercial organizations. Wallops also supports development tests and exercises involving United States Navy aircraft and ship-based electronics and weapon systems in the Virginia Capes operating area, near the entrance to the Chesapeake Bay. In addition to its fixed-location instrumentation assets, the WFF range includes mobile radar, telemetry receivers, and command transmitters that can be transported by cargo planes to locations around the world, in order to establish a temporary range where no other instrumentation exists, to ensure safety, and to collect data in order to enable and support suborbital rocket launches from remote sites.
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 at sea. Workers at Wallops include approximately 1,000 full-time NASA civil service employees and the employees of contractors, about 30 U.S. Navy personnel, and about 100 employees of NOAA.
Orbital Sciences ORB-3 Explodes on lift-off from NASA's Wallops Flight Facilities in Virginia
USA in Space Video Taken from the Media Viewing Area using a GoPro Hero 4. The Orbital Sciences Antares ORB-3 Exploded just seconds after clearing Pad 0A in Wallops Island, Virginia at the Mid Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) on Oct 28, 2014. Some of the footage was used by CNN :)
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The Wallops Island, Va. launch pad where a Orbital Sciences rocket exploded in October will be back
Despite a massive explosion in October, authorities say a state-owned launch pad at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility should be repaired and ready for testing late next year.
Orbital Sciences' Antares rocket exploded seconds after liftoff from Wallops Island on the Eastern Shore of Virginia on Oct. 28. The rocket was carrying a cargo ship that was bound for the International Space Station.
The Virginia Commercial Spaceflight Authority on Wednesday provided news media outlets a tour of the damage from the explosion.
Two lightning towers at the launch pad were knocked down by the blast while the two others suffered damage and will need to be replaced.
A water tower next to the launch pad was slightly charred and had exterior lighting damaged, but otherwise withstood the blast. A large crater was created in the sand next to the launch pad from the blast where the rocket came down.
Two nearby buildings scheduled to be removed prior to the explosion were also damaged, but the vast majority of the complex was unscathed.
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