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ALT Graphic with text: For the latest launch updates for rockets, balloons, and more. Visit our NASA Wallops blog. Behind the text faded out is a scientific balloon, a sounding rocket launching and an Electron rocket launching.
ALT Inside a large white high bay, a small silver satellite is attached to the front of a long white rocket. The satellite has two rows of black lenses on the side facing the camera, two solar panels folded top and bottom, and three robotic arms stowed along the sides and face. The rocket’s nose cone is open, with one side missing and the other folded away like a banana peel, revealing a silvery interior. It has a long wing on the top, and the words “Northrop Grumman” are just visible in blue letters on the right side. This image is watermarked with “Credit: NASA/Ron Beard.”
ALT Inside a large white high bay, a man in a blue static discharge jacket stands on a black platform and works on a small satellite. The satellite is silver with black solar panels folded against the near side. A black electronics cart with a laptop on top rests in front of the platform. Other large pieces of equipment are visible to the left and right inside the bay, and an American flag hangs on the far wall. This image is watermarked with “Credit: NASA/Ron Beard.”
ALT Three of the Thunderbird jets fly in a triangular formation against a light blue sky. The jets are red, white and blue, with white contrails trailing behind them. (Photo Credit: NASA/Terry Zaperach)
ALT The L-1011 Stargazer aircraft lands on the Wallops runway. The aircraft is white with a blue strip down the side. Photo Credit: NASA/Kyle Hoppes
ALT The Horizontal Integration Facility at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, a large, white building with two tall doors. The left door is painted with an American flag and the right door with the blue NASA logo. A few cars are seen in the parking lot in front of the building. The image is watermarked “Credit: NASA/Ron Beard.”
ALT The Horizontal Integration Facility at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, a large, white building with two tall doors. The left door is painted with an American flag and the right door with the blue NASA logo. A few cars are seen in the parking lot in front of the building. The image is watermarked “Credit: NASA/Ron Beard.”
ALT A group of people pose in the snow in front of a large white scientific instrument with solar panels, set against a bright blue sky and snowy landscape. Shipping containers and equipment are visible in the background.
ALT Four engineers in clean room suits stand and kneel around a refrigerator-sized metal box. They are in the process of opening the box, to reveal the LINK satellite. The visible part of the spacecraft is covered with the black grid of a solar panel. They are working on a large, open warehouse-type floor.
ALT A rocket launches from a facility surrounded by forest, leaving a long trail of white smoke as it ascends into a blue sky with scattered clouds.\n\n\n\n
ALT The Antonov aircraft in midair before landing on the runway at Wallops. The plane is white with a yellow and blue stripe. The words \"ANTONOV\" are on the tail fin. A line of dark trees is in the background with light yellow-ish grass in the foreground. (Credit: NASA/Jamie Adkins)
ALT A military aircraft on a tarmac with multiple crew members around. A second military plane is seen in the distance flying in the sky. (Photo Credit: NASA/Patrick Black)
ALT A Stargazer aircraft flying in the air with a Pegasus rocket attached to the bottom. The photograph is taken from the ground and looking at the unside of the aircraft, where the rocekt is attached. (Credit: NASA/Randy Beaudoin)
ALT Aerial view of NASA's Wallops Flight Facility main base. Two aircraft runways with buildings scattered between surrounded by bright green grass. Below the runway in a field of grass is a solar panel farm along a long roadway and on the other side of the roadway is a dense forest of dark green trees.
ALT Graphic with Artemis II Flyby Day schedule in EDT. The lunar flyby events stream on HBO MAX, Netflix, YouTube, Peacock, Amazon Prime, and on the NASA app. \n \nFlyby Day Schedule (all times EDT) \nNASA COVERAGE BEGINS - 1 p.m. \nARTEMIS II CREW PASSES THE APOLLO 13 DISTANCE RECORD \u2013 1:56 p.m. \nCrew remarks- 2:10 p.m. \nLUNAR OBSERVATION PERIOD (FLYBY) BEGINS \u2013 2:45 p.m. \nPREDICTED LOSS OF COMMUNICATION AS CREW HEADS BEHIND THE MOON\u202F\u202F(ESTIMATED TO LAST 40 MINUTES) \u2013 6:44 p.m. \nARTEMIS II CREW MAKES CLOSEST APPROACH TO THE MOON \u2013 7:02 p.m. \nARTEMIS II CREW REACHES MAXIMUM DISTANCE FROM THE EARTH\u202F - 7:07 p.m. \nPREDICTED ACQUISITION OF SIGNAL WITH INTEGRITY \u2013 7:25 p.m. \nECLIPSE PERIOD BEGINS WITH MOON ECLIPSING SUN \u2013 8:35 p.m. \nLUNAR OBSERVATION PERIOD (FLYBY) CONCLUDES \u2013 9:20 p.m. \nSOLAR ECLIPSE PERIOD ENDS \u2013 9:32 p.m. \nNASA COVERAGE CONCLUDES - 9:45 p.m.