Terrier-Orion Rocket Launch From NASA Wallops Flight Facility Completed

WALLOPS ISLAND, VA – The launch of a NASA Terrier-Orion sounding rocket was successfully launched at  9:07:30 a.m. today  from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. This launch was to test several new rocket technologies. Preliminary indications  are that all payload experiment systems received good data.

There are no further launches currently scheduled from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in September.

Information on today’s and future missions from Wallops is available on the Internet at: http://www.nasa.gov/wallops

Launch status also is available at the Wallops launch status line at 757-824-2050.