Upcoming Wallops Island Rocket Launches

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RockOn XI
University and community college students will get a boost in their studies and support in launching their careers during Rocket Week June 15-22, 2018, at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Nearly 200 university and community college students and instructors from across the country will build and fly experiments on a NASA suborbital rocket through the RockOn! and RockSat-C programs. The NASA Visitor Center at Wallops will open at 4:30 a.m. EDT on launch day for viewing the flight. Live coverage of the mission is scheduled to begin at 5 a.m. on the Wallops Ustream site. Launch updates also are available via the Wallops Facebook and Twitter sites. Facebook Live coverage begins at 5:15 a.m. The rocket launch is expected to be seen from the eastern shore of Virginia and Maryland. Follow the mission on the Wallops Mission Status Center at sites.wff.nasa.gov/wmsc using Chrome or Firefox.
Date: June 21
Time: 5:30 a.m. EDT
Rocket Type: suborbital Terrier-Improved Orion