WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. – The launch of a Terrier-Lynx suborbital rocket for the Department of Defense scheduled for the evening of Tuesday, Dec. 18, from Wallops Flight Facility has been postponed.

A new launch date has not been determined.

The next launch from the Wallops Flight Facility is a NASA Terrier-Orion suborbital sounding rocket scheduled for late January 2013.

More information on these and other missions at Wallops is available on the Internet at: http://www.nasa.gov/wallops