Activities at Wallops Flight Facility
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Wallops Flight Facility conducts frequent low-cost rocket and balloon missions supporting NASA science and technology research. Sounding rockets and scientific balloons are used for over 20 missions annually across various fields like heliophysics, astrophysics, and planetary physics. Wallops is developing new balloon and small satellite technologies and will support upcoming missions like LADEE and HS-3.
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Activities at Wallops Flight Facility
- 1. 49 th Robert H. Goddard Memorial Symposium March 30, 2011 Bill Wrobel Director, Wallops Flight Facility Activities at Wallops Flight Facility
- 2. Wallops 6000 Acre Campus Main Base Wallops Island
- 3. Wallops History Founded by NACA in 1945 Over 16,000 rocket launches conducted over 65+ years Wallops’ first satellite, Explorer 9, launched 50 years ago on February 16, 1961
- 4. The Wallops Role Manage & implement frequent, quick-response, low-cost, risk-tolerant missions supporting NASA science & technology research Major mission elements Suborbital & small orbital research carriers Research Range operations Carrier & operations technology development
- 5. Sounding Rockets 20+ missions flown annually 10 vehicle configurations 9 worldwide launch sites + mobile campaigns Supporting Heliophysics Astrophysics Planetary physics Technology development Education
- 6. Exoplanet Finding using Sounding Rockets The Planet Imaging Concept Testbed Using Sounding Rocket (PICTURE) uses nulling interferometers. PICTURE will flight qualify several key technologies Extremely light-weight mirror Visible nulling coronograph Deformable mirror 0.5 milli arc-sec pointing PICTURE is a collaboration between Boston University Jet Propulsion Laboratory Goddard Space Flight Center Charles Stark Draper Laboratory
- 7. Scientific Balloons ~14 missions annually Features Balloon volumes up to 60M cubic ft. Suspended loads up to 8000 lbs. Float altitudes of up to 160K feet Balloon Classes Conventional: 2-36 hour duration Long Duration: 40+ days Super Pressure: Up to 100 days Worldwide launch sites Support to Astrophysics Technology development Education
- 8. The Balloon Program Legacy Over 4 decades, 30 spacecraft missions have been evolved from balloon missions TRACER BOOMERANG TIGER / ANITA CREAM InFOCuS BLAST FIREBall AESOP Sunrise
- 9. New Balloon Technologies Super Pressure Balloons Will provide mission durations of 60-100 days Recent successful 14MCF test flight from Antarctica, with 4000 lbs. payload Wallops Arc Second Pointer Providing accuracies of 0.75 arcseconds Test flight scheduled for Fall 2011 Proposed in recent NASA Explorer Mission of Opportunity Future plans include trajectory control
- 10. Super Pressure Balloon Test Flight (1/2011)
- 11. Airborne Science Wallops P-3 currently in Greenland supporting Operation Ice Bridge Airborne Topographic LIDAR (ATM) provides precision ice-thickness maps, repeated on an annual basis More than 250 science flight hours planned
- 12. Unmanned Aerial Systems - Big & Small Wallops will serve as base of operations for NASA’s Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel (HS-3) Global Hawk flights studying formation of severe storms 5-year program beginning in Summer 2012 Wallops UAS Technology Initiative 3-year program to demonstrate capabilities of small UAVs for Earth Science Standardized instrument support interface architecture Miniaturized instrument (e.g., ATM) Demos using L-3 Viking 300 UAS
- 13. Small Satellites Wallops developing proto-flight “6U” small sat design, based on Cubesat standard 6U spacecraft provides standardized architecture supporting multiple instrument concepts ~2/3 of volume available for instruments Initial unit & deployer will complete qualification testing by end of FY11
- 14. Supersonic Inflatable Aeroshell Demonstrator (SIAD) Office of Chief Technologist sponsoring program to demonstrate high-speed inflatable decelerator concept for planetary or Earth reentry JPL-led project team Flight tests proposed between 2012-2014 Wallops providing balloons, avionics, and operations support High-speed parachute demos High-altitude rocket accelerated reentry tests
- 15. Supersonic Inflatable Aeroshell Demonstrator (SIAD)
- 16. ORS-1 1 st operational spacecraft launch for DoD’s Operationally Responsive Space office Provides quick-reaction satellites supporting urgent military needs Electro-optical & infrared imaging spacecraft to be launched on a Minotaur 1 Launch Date: May 2011?
- 17. Lunar Atmosphere Dust Experiment Explorer (LADEE) NASA Ames & Goddard built Lunar orbiting spacecraft. Instruments: Neutral Mass Spectrometer (GSFC) Ultra-Violet Spectrometer (ARC) Dust Detector (LASP) Lunar Laser Comm (Lincoln Labs) Wallops providing end-to-end launch service support USAF-provided Minotaur V Launch site I&T Launch range services from WFF’s Pad 0B Highlights 1 st flight of Minotaur V 1 st NASA flight on USAF Minotaur vehicle 1 st planetary mission from WFF
- 18. Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Explorer (LADEE)
- 19. Taurus II Taurus II expands Wallops capabilities to medium-class ELVs Initial missions are 9 launches supporting NASA’s COTS & CRS programs for commercial resupply of the ISS Future Science & non-NASA missions expected >$100M in new launch infrastructure underway Initial flight in late 2011
- 20. Taurus II & ISS Resupply
- 22. Pad 0A Medium-Class ELV Launch Complex