The launch of a NASA Terrier-Improved Orion suborbital rocket was successfully conducted at 7:16 a.m. EDT today from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The launch was to test several new rocket and spacecraft technologies.
Further information on this mission is available at: http://www.nasa.gov/wallops http://www.nasa.gov/topics/technology/features/thermal-control-tech.html
Information on future missions from Wallops is available on the Internet at: http://www.nasa.gov/wallops
Launch information also is available on the Wallops launch status line at 757-824-2050.
The next launch currently scheduled from Wallops is a NASA Terrier-Improved Orion carrying educational experiments. The launch window is June 23 – 25 between 6 and 9 a.m.
