Flight OpportunitiesPictured here from left to right, Zephyr Proffitt and Tayah Day of Red Mountain High School in Mesa, Arizona work...VSS Unity rocket motor burn on #Unity22NASA's Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator, or LOFTID, launched Nov. 10, 2022, to demonstrate inflatable heat shield...Students from 20 middle and high schools watched as their experiments launched aboard a high-altitude balloon on June 14, 2023,...Sara Jennings, chief executive officer of Orion Labs and team lead for the company’s TechLeap project, works on a payload...In a project led by Purdue University and supported by NASA TechFlights, researchers test various health care-related technologies in microgravity...Orbital Medicine’s Evolved Medical Microgravity Suction Device is prepared for a flight test to help mature the technology aboard Blue...Flight Opportunities-supported researcher Dr. Anna-Lisa Paul prepares her payload ahead of its flight aboard Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo in July 2021.World View's March 2018 flight for Flight Opportunities brought together two sensor payloads in order to help researchers validate their...High-altitude balloons are one type of suborbital test vehicle available to researchers through commercial providers with support from NASA TechFlights.Flight Opportunities-supported researcher Dr. Anna-Lisa Paul prepares her payload ahead of its flight aboard Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo in July 2021.Graduate students Zach Estlack (left, University of Utah) and Matin Golozar (University of California -- Berkeley) load the “Lab on...Orion Labs’ Quantum Earth Observatory launches on an Aerostar high-altitude balloon from the company’s facility in Sioux Falls, South Dakota...Flight preparation: The Orion Labs team makes final hardware checks on their Quantum Earth Observation payload prior to launch. From...Zachary Gaines, a rising senior in Cal Poly Pomona’s Bronco Space Lab, points out the camera and sensor used in...Space Foundry CEO and co-founder Dr. Ram Prasad Gandhiraman (left) and CTO and co-founder Dr. Dennis Nordlund operate the company’s...New Shepard (NS-14) lifts off from Blue Origin’s Launch Site One in West Texas.A research team from University of California – Davis tested reaction wheels for CubeSats on parabolic flights in December 2021....World View’s Stratollite high-altitude balloon is inflated on the launch pad in Tucson, Arizona on April 9, 2022. Researchers at...Sara Jennings, chief executive officer of Orion Labs and team lead for the company’s TechLeap project, works on a payload...In 2014, the SpaceLoft sounding rocket from UP Aerospace provided the first test for RadPC outside of a ground-based laboratory...In a series of flights between June 1-6, 2021, Stratodynamics Inc. launched its HiDRON stratospheric glider from a high-altitude balloon...Steve boxallMasten Space Systems vertical takeoff vertical landing rocket launched September 10, 2020 to flight test NASA-licensed Psionic navigation doppler lidar...A terrain relative navigation system under development by Draper of Cambridge, Massachusetts could be the eyes for the next lunar...Before new landing technologies make it to the Moon, NASA and commercial partners are refining them aboard suborbital rockets that...A small spacecraft the size of a mini-refrigerator is packed with cutting-edge “green” technology. NASA’s Green Propellant Infusion Mission, or...Just over two months since its first venture to suborbital space, Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo is set to fly again and...Blue Origin New Shepard P7 Payload Customers. More photos at flickr.com/nasafoPayload racks inside New Shepard Crew CapsuleSince the summer of 2011, Made in Space, Inc. chalked up over 30,000 hours of 3D printing technology testing and...
