NASA’s Budget: A Mixed Bag for Virginia
Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Wallops Island, Virginia NASA’s proposed budget contains some very good news for NASA facilities and contractors in Virginia as well as a bit of bad news. The likely...
View ArticleThe Case for Wallops Island as a Commercial Spaceport
Launch complexes on Wallops Island, Virginia Guest blogger Jack Kennedy, who edits the Spaceports blog, makes the case for Virginia’s Wallops Island to play a major role in NASA’s new commercial space...
View ArticleVirginia Commercial Space Flight Authority Names New Operations Director
Launch complexes on Wallops Island, Virginia New Va. Commercial Space Flight Authority operations director named Delmarvanow.com Retired U.S. Navy Cdr. Zigmond V. Leszczynski has been appointed...
View ArticleFAA Gives Environmental Approval for Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport Expansion
Launch complexes on Wallops Island, Virginia The Federal Aviation Administration has given its OK to a NASA plan to expand the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at the Wallops Flight Facility for new...
View ArticleMaryland Governor Tours Wallops Island
Launch complexes on Wallops Island, Virginia WMDT-47 News has an interesting story the shows the importance of Wallops Island in Virginia to the Maryland economy: On Monday, Governor Martin O’Malley...
View ArticleVideo: Giant LOX Tank for Taurus II Arrives at Wallops
Massive fuel tank arrives at Wallops DelmarvaNow.com A 162-foot-long, 56-wheeled vehicle transporting the largest tank of the fuel farm needed to launch Orbital Sciences Corp.’s Taurus II rocket...
View ArticleMikulski: Wallops Becoming the Southwest Airlines of Space
Launch complexes on Wallops Island, Virginia Here’s an interesting quote from Maryland Sen. Barbara Mikulski which was included in a press release issued after Gov. Martin O’Malley toured the Wallops...
View ArticleWallops Island Could Host Human Space Flights
Launch complexes on Wallops Island, Virginia Virginia Business has an interesting story on the commercial launch potential of Wallops Island in Virginia, which includes possible human launches aboard...
View ArticleOrbital Sciences Pushes Cost Advantages of Taurus II, Wallops Location
Orbital Pushes ‘Cheap’ Taurus Rocket DoD Buzz Currently, most DoD launches are handled by the EELV program, not known for its low costs or lack of cost growth over the last five years. EELV...
View ArticleVirginia Could Lead the Way in Commercial Space
Launch complexes on Wallops Island, Virginia Space technology leadership rests with Va. delegation by Jack Kennedy TriCities.com Russia, China and India either have, or will have, vibrant human space...
View ArticleNew Wine to Celebrate Virginia’s Wallops Island Spaceport
Launch complexes on Wallops Island, Virginia VCSFA PRESS RELEASE The Virginia Commercial Space Flight Authority and Holly Grove Vineyards are pleased to announce ‘Genesis’,  a new Virginia wine,...
View ArticleNASA to Open New Rocket Integration Facility at Wallops
Pad OA at Wallops Island. (Credit: Orbital Sciences Corporation) NASA PROGRAM UPDATE NASA will unveil its new rocket integration facility at the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, during a...
View ArticleVirginia Bill Would Direct Tax Revenues to Commercial Space Development
Pad OA at Wallops Island. (Credit: Orbital Sciences Corporation) Jack Kennedy informs me that there’s a move afoot in the Virginia Legislature to direct tax dollars generated by commercial human space...
View ArticleFAA Grants Fund Improvements at Three Spaceports
The FAA has awarded grants totaling nearly $500,000 to improve spaceports in Virginia, California and New Mexico: $249,378 to the New Mexico Space Port Authority’s Spaceport America to construct a...
View ArticleGuest Opinion: Space Florida’s Actions “Petulent” and “Ethically Lacking”
Jack Kennedy By Jack Kennedy “A proposal by NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility to support commercial launches of human spaceflight missions from Virginia’s Eastern Shore poses a ‘direct threat’ to the...
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