Wallops Flight Facility - Missions

Missions

WFF’s primary mission areas are as follows:

  • Sounding Rockets
  • Scientific Balloons
  • Aircraft
  • Range and Mission Management
  • Small Launch Vehicle Research
  • Mission Planning Lab

With its sounding rocket, aircraft, and balloon flights carrying scientific payloads, its aeronautical systems testing, its range support for Space Shuttle launches, and its educational outreach activities, WFF supports all of NASA’s Mission Directorates and practically all of their respective themes:

  • Science Mission Directorate
    • Earth Science
    • Solar System Exploration
    • The Universe
    • Heliophysics
  • Exploration Mission Directorate
    • Constellation Systems
    • Exploration Systems Research and Technology
    • Human Systems Research and Technology
  • Aeronautics Mission Directorate
    • Aeronautics Technology
  • Space Operations Mission Directorate
    • International Space Station
    • Space Shuttle
    • Space and Flight Support

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