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Q1 2017 WIRA NASA Update Bill Wrobel
- 1. 1 Wallops Flight Facility Bill Wrobel
- 2. 2 Reported Antares Launch sightings • Using GIS, these dots represent where people watched Antares from (as reported on Wallops’ social media accounts)
- 3. 3 Cape Cod, MA Sounding Rockets - 25 launches planned - Alaska campaign underway
- 4. 4 Scientific Balloons - Antarctica campaign complete - Return to New Zealand in March
- 5. 5 Airborne Science - Operation IceBridge uploads - ACT-America deployment
- 6. 6 Small Satellites - IceCube ready for launch - HaloSat, TROPICS in development
- 7. 7 Visitor Center - Record 77,032 visitors in 2016 - Exhibit upgrades under development - Next event: Jan. 21 Solar Viewing Event with Delmarva Space Sciences Foundation - Save the date: Solar Eclipse—Aug. 21
Editor's Notes
- Happy New Year! Since this is our first meeting of the year, I thought to give you a quick preview of our operations in 2017 TRANSITION: But first, I want to go back to our Antares launch last October (NEXT SLIDE)
- I know we showed pictures of various launch views at our last gathering, but I wanted to share this map created by our GIS staff plotting all the sightings, as reported on our Social Media page. As expected, you have a greater conversation in our immediate region. But, the concentration remains significant into New York, Philadelphia, D.C. and Western Maryland, down to Southern Virginia and Northern North Carolina. Our Range team is active getting ready for the OA-8 flight later this year. TRANSITION: These launches continue to put a spotlight not just on Wallops and our core programs, but the region in general. (NEXT SLIDE)
- Our Sounding Rockets Team is in the dark, cold of Alaska for 5 launches, the first of which is scheduled for this Thursday! In all, we have a very busy year with 25 launches planned—the first sounding rocket scheduled from Wallops will launch in April TRANSITION: Keeping with a theme related to cold places…(NEXT SLIDE)
- Our Scientific Balloon Team just returned from Antarctica where we launched 5 balloons—I think the picture gives a greater appreciation for the size and scale of these balloons/payloads. In all, the team has 13 launches planned this year; their next stop is Wanaka, New Zealand, for another Super Pressure Balloon. TRANSITION: Airborne science will be globetrotting this year as well… (NEXT SLIDE)
- Pictured here is a scientist from the University of Kansas prepping an instrument for upload to our P-3 for Operation IceBridge. That mission will fly in March up in Greenland. In the meantime, the team is preparing to deploy our C-130 for the Atmospheric Carbon and Transport-America mission. TRANSITION: We also have some new endeavors underway, one of which I’ll highlight next (NEXT SLIDE)
- Wallops provides mission management and engineering support for Goddard Space Flight Center’s Small Satellite program. Pictured here is the team posing with IceCube, the first small satellite we’ve delivered for launch. (NOTE THE SIZE OF THE SATELLITE AND THAT IT WILL LAUNCH IN MARCH). We have more of these missions underway, such as HaloSat and TROPICS, for 2017. TRANSITION: Altogether, our programs are very healthy and in a good place. We’re still awaiting news on other programs, such as the TRITON basing decision. In the meantime, we’re looking forward to working with the transition team. One final area I want to highlight is our Visitor Center (NEXT SLIDE)
- Our Visitor Center had a record breaking year in 2017 with just over 77,000 visitors! The team is working exhibit upgrades at the Visitor Center thanks to a grant awarded last year…if you haven’t been there in awhile, I encourage you to stop by. If you’re in town this weekend, we’ve got a Solar Viewing event at 1 p.m. In partnership with the Delmarva Space Sciences Foundation. This is the first of many solar-related events as we gear up for the Great American Solar Eclipse on August 21 (NOTE, we’ll just see a partial solar eclipse here at Wallops)