Posts Tagged ‘NASA’
UPDATED: ISS Resupply Mission Launches from Wallops Tonight
UPDATED – 9pm – It was a picture perfect launch from the Mid-Atlantic Spaceport at the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia tonight. The Antares rocket carrying the Cygnus cargo craft lifted off just after 8:30pm ============================================================== Northrop Grumman’s 19th commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station is expected to lift off from the…
Read MoreAntares Lifts Off from the Wallops Flight Facility
After a day’s delay, an Antares rocket lifted off from the Wallops Flight Facility on the eastern shore of Virginia just after 5:30 this morning. The Cygnus cargo ship, the SS Sally Ride, at the top of the Antares is carrying 8200 pounds of supplies to the International Space Station – including food, hardware, experiments…
Read MoreUPDATED: SCRUBBED – Antares Resupply Mission Lift Off from Wallops Rescheduled to Early Monday Morning
UPDATED 11/06/22 5:40am – This morning’s launch of the Antares has been scrubbed because of a fire alarm going on in the Northrop Grumman Dulles facility, which has caused an evacuation of the building. They will attempt launch Monday morning at 5:27am ========================================================== There will be a launch of an Antares rocket from the Wallops…
Read MoreLaunch From Wallops Island Scheduled Thursday Night
A launch is scheduled tonight from NASA Wallops Flight Facility on the Virginia Eastern Shore.If conditions allow, the glow of the Northrop Grumman Corporation Antares cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station could be visible across much of Delmarva.The launch is scheduled for 9:38 p.m. You can follow along with the NASA Blog. According…
Read MoreIRSD Middle Schooler Semifinalist in NASA’s “Name the Rover” Contest
A student from the Southern Delaware School of the Arts has been selected as a semifinalist for the Mars 2020 “Name the Rover” contest being held by NASA.  An essay by Indian River School District middle schooler Hailey Mack of Ocean View, suggested the name “Ingenuity” and her entry was selected as the Delaware middle…
Read MoreResupply Launch from Wallops Flight Facility this Morning
An Antares rocket with a Cygnus module is scheduled for lift-off from Wallops Flight Facility this morning at 9:59. Along with the resupply mission, which includes 8200 pounds of research, crew supplies and hardware there are seven student-made CubeSats set to fly to the International Space Station as well. CubeSats are small research satellites and…
Read MoreVIDEO: WGMD News Week in Review 4/20/2019
WATCH: Our Special Coverage of the Sussex County Tornado, the Meteor sighting on Delmarva, the NASA Wallops launch and more! Plus, our Persons of the Week, honoring the Tornado First Responders. Join WGMD’s Hunter Landon for a look back at the week’s top stories!
Read MoreWednesday’s NASA Wallops Launch to be Visible Across Delmarva
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration will launch an unmanned spacecraft from it’s Wallops Flight Facility in Accomack County, Virginia Wednesday, that will be visible across all of Delmarva, and a large swath of the Eastern seaboard. Virtually everywhere on Delmarva, it will be visible within 60 seconds of launch. This is a re-supply mission…
Read MoreHeaded to the International Space Station – from Virginia
7400 pounds of science, supplies and hardware is on its way to the International Space Station. An Antares rocket carrying the Cygnus spacecraft full of supplies lifted off from the Wallops Flight Facility at 4:44 this morning. Cygnus will dock with the ISS Thursday morning and remain there until July 15.
Read MoreASPIRE Launch from Wallops Successful
NASA had a successful launch Saturday morning. ASPIRE is the Advanced Supersonic Parachute Inflation Research Experiment and NASA was testing a parachute for possible future missions to Mars. The parachute payload was deployed by a suborbital sounding rocket to an altitude of about 32 miles, then splashed-down in the Atlantic off Wallops Island where data…
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