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NASA Wallops Supports Hypersonic Rocket Launches

November 17, 2023 NeRD

NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility supported the launch of two suborbital sounding rockets on Nov. 15, 2023, for Navy Strategic Systems Programs (SSP), and the Missile Defense Agency (MDA), in coordination with Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division (NSWC Crane) and the Office of the Secretary of Defense’s Test Resource Management Center (TRMC) Multi-Service Advanced Capability Hypersonic Test Bed (MACH TB). This subscale test was executed by Sandia National Laboratories. Data collected from this test will be used to inform the development of the Navy’s Conventional Prompt Strike (CPS), MDA’s hypersonic…

Student-Focused Scientific Balloon Mission Inspires Future Generation

September 1, 2023 NeRD

Team members from the University of Colorado Boulder and Colorado School of Mines pose with their flight-ready payload set to fly with the HASP mission during NASA’s Scientific Balloon Program’s fall campaign in Fort Sumner, N.M. From left, Elsa Carreras, Benjamin Hellem, Erick Bueno, and Chloe Zentner. Not pictured: team members Shuyu Song, Hallie Hill, and Peter Braza. u003cstrongu003eCredits: NASAu003c/strongu003e The fall campaign of NASA’s Scientific Balloon Program is underway at the Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility (CSBF) balloon launch site in Fort Sumner, New Mexico. The program will launch a…