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All systems are go for a planned major rocket launch at Wallops Island this month, the most significant launch from the NASA facility in over 10 years, and the spectacular sight should be visible from Ocean City and the surrounding areas.
Major space launches have become commonplace in other areas of the country such as Florida and Texas, for example, but the spectacle is rarely seen in the mid-Atlantic region. That will change when a Minotaur 1 four-stage rocket carrying an Air Force Laboratories satellite will be launched from NASA’s Wallops Island Flight Facility just outside of Chincoteague.
NASA and Air Force officials this week began installing the Minotaur 1 four-stage rocket on the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) pad on the southern end of Wallops Island. The launch, which will be largest of any kind at Wallops since 1995, is scheduled for Dec. 11 with a launch window set from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. The window for the entire mission is open until Dec. 20 should weather conditions or other factors prevent a lift on Dec. 11 as planned.

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Wallops Flight Facility

Latitude 37.84386° N Longitude 75.48192° W

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The NASA Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Va., has been selected by the Space and Missile Systems Centre's Detachment 12 as the launch site for the Air Force Research Laboratory's TacSat 2 satellite. The launch is scheduled for November 2006.
The satellite will be launched on an Air Force four-stage Minotaur I space launch vehicle contracted through Orbital Sciences Corporation's Launch Systems Group. The mission will be conducted from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport launch pad on the south end of Wallops Island.


Latitude 37.84386° N Longitude 75.48192° W

"The Wallops Flight Facility has a 61-year heritage of providing fast response launch services to government, academia and commercial organizations. We are very pleased to be able to support this Air Force mission" - Jay Pittman, chief of the Range and Mission Management Office.

In addition to supporting the TacSat 2 launch, Wallops also will be the launch site for a Minotaur I rocket carrying the Near-Field Infrared Experiment (NFIRE) satellite.

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