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UPDATE Feb. 11, 2025: The second rocket of the GIRAFF mission launched on Saturday, Feb. 8, at 11:35 p.m. Alaska…
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Jan 14, 2025– Update: This mission launched on Jan. 13 at 7:15 p.m. EST and is complete. A suborbital rocket…
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Jan. 10, 2025 – Final Campaign Update: Launch operations have concluded for NASA’s Antarctic Long-Duration Balloon Campaign. The GAPS (General…
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Lee esta nota de prensa en español aquí. NASA and Peru’s National Commission for Aerospace Research and Development (CONIDA) laid the…
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Update Nov. 7, 2024: NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility supported the launch of two rocket-propelled targets. The U.S. Navy training exercise was…
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Update Oct. 24, 2024: This mission launched on Oct. 24 at 7:10 p.m. EDT and is complete. NASA’s Wallops Flight…
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NASA’s globetrotting C-130 Hercules team is carrying out a cargo transport mission to Bengaluru, India, in support of the NASA-ISRO…
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Update Sept. 28, 2024: The mission launched on Sept. 28 at 2:00 p.m. EDT and is complete. NASA’s Wallops Flight…
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Almost a decade ago, then-grad student Kyle Helson contributed to early paperwork for NASA’s EXCITE mission. As a scientist at…
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NASA’s Scientific Balloon Program’s fifth balloon mission of the 2024 fall campaign took flight Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024, from the…
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Editor’s note: EXCITE successfully launched at 9:22 a.m. EDT (7:22 a.m. MDT) Saturday, Aug. 31. The balloon and payload reached…
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The NASA Aircraft Management Advisory Board (AMAB), which manages the agency’s aircraft fleet, has decided to relocate the agency’s P-3…