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Wallops Launch Schedule

Below is a list of upcoming missions supported by NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility. All dates are subject to change.

A Northrop Grumman Antares rocket, with the company’s Cygnus spacecraft onboard, launches at 6:01 p.m. EDT, Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2021, from the Mid Atlantic Regional Spaceport’s Pad-0A, at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.

March 2025

Missions:  HElium Resonance Scatter in the Corona and HELiosphere (HERSCHEL)
Vehicle:  Black Brant IX sounding rocket
Date: No earlier than March 9, 2025
Time: TBA
Location: White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico

Mission:  AWESOME
Vehicle:  Two Terrier-Improved Malemute sounding rockets and one Black-Brant XII sounding rocket
Date: No earlier than March 24, 2025
Time: TBA
Location: Poker Flat Research Range in Alaska

June 2025

Mission:  RockOn
Vehicle:  Terrier-Improved Orion sounding rocket
Date: June 26, 2025, back-up day June 27, 2025
Time: Morning
Location: Wallops Island, Virginia

August 2025

Mission:  RockSat-X
Vehicle:  Terrier-Improved Malemute sounding rocket
Date: Aug. 12, 2025, back-up day Aug. 13, 2025
Time: Morning
Location: Wallops Island, Virginia

Where do our sounding rocket and range teams launch rockets from other than Wallops?

Alaska, Norway, Marshall Islands and Australia.

Our Wallops team go to where the science is, which means traveling around the world to launch sounding rockets.

Infographic map of Delmarva listing six locations along the Atlantic coast to see a rocket that launches from Wallops Island, Virginia.
Infographic map of Delmarva listing six locations along the Atlantic coast to see a rocket that launches from Wallops Island, Virginia.
NASA/Jamie Adkins
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