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RE: Wallops Flight Facility

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Student Cubesats: Small Payload, Big Payoff

Two student-designed spacecraft, each not much bigger than a childs toy block, will fly on a NASA suborbital sounding rocket between 6 and 9 a.m. (EST), March 11, from NASAs Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Known as cubesats, the spacecraft designed by Kentucky and California college students will gather information that could be applied to future small Earth orbiting space vehicles.

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The Wallops island launch facility is scheduled to launch a rocket between 6 -9 a.m. (local time), 11th March.

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NASA announced it has increased its support contract to the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at Wallops Island to provide launch services for rockets going into space from there.
The addition to the contract has a potential value of about $43 million through May 2014, according to NASA.
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Scientists who use the Wallops Flight Facility to get data from spaceflights were alarmed to learn that up to 30 engineers designing rockets got pink slips this week, according to their report.
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The defence contractor, Northrop Grumman, terminated its relationship with subcontractor Orbital Sciences Corp. on July 1. The two had shared a 10-year contract with NASA to launch sounding rockets at Wallops. The vessels record scientific measurements during a suborbital flight.

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Wallops Island facility to be 'Cape Canaveral of North'
There isn't much to see yet at the grandly named Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, just the skeleton of an old launch gantry on a piece of oceanfront leased from the federal government.
But promoters expect something remarkable to blossom on this sun-baked spit of sand and scrub on the Eastern Shore.

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New plans for a project at the NASA Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia have gotten underway.
Mother nature is the problem for the facility. The state and federally funded project intends to restore the shoreline from beach erosion in order to protect the structures in that area.

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NASA has selected four universities to conduct suborbital scientific research that is a new step in reinvigorating the agency's sounding rocket science program.
Managed out of NASA's Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Va., the sounding rocket program offers a low-cost test bed for new scientific studies and techniques, scientific instrumentation and spacecraft technology. Launches take place world-wide, including from Wallops, the White Sands Missile Range, N.M., and Poker Flat Research Range, Alaska.

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Minotaur 1 launch

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RE: Wallops Flight Facility