Rocket Launch Completed From NASA Wallops

Press Release From: Wallops Flight Facility
Posted: Friday, June 10, 2011

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.

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