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49 th Robert H. Goddard Memorial Symposium March 30, 2011 Bill Wrobel Director, Wallops Flight Facility Activities at Wallops Flight Facility

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Wallops 6000 Acre Campus Main Base Wallops Island

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Wallops History <ul><li>Founded by NACA in 1945 </li></ul><ul><li>Over 16,000 rocket launches conducted over 65+ years </li></ul><ul><li>Wallops’ first satellite, Explorer 9, launched 50 years ago on February 16, 1961 </li></ul>

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The Wallops Role <ul><li>Manage & implement </li></ul><ul><ul><li>frequent, </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>quick-response, </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>low-cost, </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>risk-tolerant </li></ul></ul><ul><li>missions supporting NASA science & technology research </li></ul><ul><li>Major mission elements </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Suborbital & small orbital research carriers </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Research Range operations </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Carrier & operations technology development </li></ul></ul>

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Sounding Rockets <ul><li>20+ missions flown annually </li></ul><ul><li>10 vehicle configurations </li></ul><ul><li>9 worldwide launch sites + mobile campaigns </li></ul><ul><li>Supporting </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Heliophysics </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Astrophysics </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Planetary physics </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Technology development </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Education </li></ul></ul>

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Exoplanet Finding using Sounding Rockets <ul><li>The Planet Imaging Concept Testbed Using Sounding Rocket (PICTURE) uses nulling interferometers. </li></ul><ul><li>PICTURE will flight qualify several key technologies </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Extremely light-weight mirror </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Visible nulling coronograph </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Deformable mirror </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>0.5 milli arc-sec pointing </li></ul></ul><ul><li>PICTURE is a collaboration between </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Boston University </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Jet Propulsion Laboratory </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Goddard Space Flight Center </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Charles Stark Draper Laboratory </li></ul></ul>

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Scientific Balloons <ul><li>~14 missions annually </li></ul><ul><li>Features </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Balloon volumes up to 60M cubic ft. </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Suspended loads up to 8000 lbs. </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Float altitudes of up to 160K feet </li></ul></ul><ul><li>Balloon Classes </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Conventional: 2-36 hour duration </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Long Duration: 40+ days </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Super Pressure: Up to 100 days </li></ul></ul><ul><li>Worldwide launch sites </li></ul><ul><li>Support to </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Astrophysics </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Technology development </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Education </li></ul></ul>

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The Balloon Program Legacy <ul><li>Over 4 decades, 30 spacecraft missions have been evolved from balloon missions </li></ul>TRACER BOOMERANG TIGER / ANITA CREAM InFOCuS BLAST FIREBall AESOP Sunrise

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New Balloon Technologies <ul><li>Super Pressure Balloons </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Will provide mission durations of 60-100 days </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Recent successful 14MCF test flight from Antarctica, with 4000 lbs. payload </li></ul></ul><ul><li>Wallops Arc Second Pointer </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Providing accuracies of 0.75 arcseconds </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Test flight scheduled for Fall 2011 </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Proposed in recent NASA Explorer Mission of Opportunity </li></ul></ul><ul><li>Future plans include trajectory control </li></ul>

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Super Pressure Balloon Test Flight (1/2011)

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Airborne Science <ul><li>Wallops P-3 currently in Greenland supporting Operation Ice Bridge </li></ul><ul><li>Airborne Topographic LIDAR (ATM) provides precision ice-thickness maps, repeated on an annual basis </li></ul><ul><li>More than 250 science flight hours planned </li></ul>

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Unmanned Aerial Systems - Big & Small <ul><li>Wallops will serve as base of operations for NASA’s Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel (HS-3) </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Global Hawk flights studying formation of severe storms </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>5-year program beginning in Summer 2012 </li></ul></ul><ul><li>Wallops UAS Technology Initiative </li></ul><ul><ul><li>3-year program to demonstrate capabilities of small UAVs for Earth Science </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Standardized instrument support interface architecture </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Miniaturized instrument (e.g., ATM) </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Demos using L-3 Viking 300 UAS </li></ul></ul>

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Small Satellites <ul><li>Wallops developing proto-flight “6U” small sat design, based on Cubesat standard </li></ul><ul><li>6U spacecraft provides standardized architecture supporting multiple instrument concepts </li></ul><ul><li>~2/3 of volume available for instruments </li></ul><ul><li>Initial unit & deployer will complete qualification testing by end of FY11 </li></ul>

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Supersonic Inflatable Aeroshell Demonstrator (SIAD) <ul><li>Office of Chief Technologist sponsoring program to demonstrate high-speed inflatable decelerator concept for planetary or Earth reentry </li></ul><ul><ul><li>JPL-led project team </li></ul></ul><ul><li>Flight tests proposed between 2012-2014 </li></ul><ul><li>Wallops providing balloons, avionics, and operations support </li></ul><ul><ul><li>High-speed parachute demos </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>High-altitude rocket accelerated reentry tests </li></ul></ul>

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Supersonic Inflatable Aeroshell Demonstrator (SIAD)

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ORS-1 <ul><li>1 st operational spacecraft launch for DoD’s Operationally Responsive Space office </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Provides quick-reaction satellites supporting urgent military needs </li></ul></ul><ul><li>Electro-optical & infrared imaging spacecraft to be launched on a Minotaur 1 </li></ul><ul><li>Launch Date: May 2011? </li></ul>

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Lunar Atmosphere Dust Experiment Explorer (LADEE) <ul><li>NASA Ames & Goddard built Lunar orbiting spacecraft. Instruments: </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Neutral Mass Spectrometer (GSFC) </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Ultra-Violet Spectrometer (ARC) </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Dust Detector (LASP) </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Lunar Laser Comm (Lincoln Labs) </li></ul></ul><ul><li>Wallops providing end-to-end launch service support </li></ul><ul><ul><li>USAF-provided Minotaur V </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Launch site I&T </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Launch range services from WFF’s Pad 0B </li></ul></ul><ul><li>Highlights </li></ul><ul><ul><li>1 st flight of Minotaur V </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>1 st NASA flight on USAF Minotaur vehicle </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>1 st planetary mission from WFF </li></ul></ul>

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Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Explorer (LADEE)

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Taurus II <ul><li>Taurus II expands Wallops capabilities to medium-class ELVs </li></ul><ul><li>Initial missions are 9 launches supporting NASA’s COTS & CRS programs for commercial resupply of the ISS </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Future Science & non-NASA missions expected </li></ul></ul><ul><li>>$100M in new launch infrastructure underway </li></ul><ul><li>Initial flight in late 2011 </li></ul>

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Taurus II & ISS Resupply

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Horizontal Integration Facility

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Pad 0A Medium-Class ELV Launch Complex