NASA Sounding Rockets Program

NASA's recurring suborbital launch programme, managed at Wallops Flight Facility to select missions and provide sounding-rocket vehicles, payload design and integration, range coordination, launch operations, recovery, and data support for scientific investigations and technology tests.

Identity

Aliases: Sounding Rockets ProgramNASA Sounding Rocket ProgramNSRP
Domains: spaceflight
Name: NASA Sounding Rockets Program
Status: active

Details

Description: NASA's recurring suborbital launch programme, managed at Wallops Flight Facility to select missions and provide sounding-rocket vehicles, payload design and integration, range coordination, launch operations, recovery, and data support for scientific investigations and technology tests.
Start Date: 1959

Assets & Meta

Creation Time: July 29, 2026 at 11:17:43 UTC
Updated Time: July 29, 2026 at 11:17:43 UTC

Other

Leads
Official Urls: https://www.nasa.gov/soundingrockets/overview/https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/soundingrocketprogramhandbook.pdfhttps://www.nasa.gov/missions/sounding-rockets/nasa-technology-gets-night-time-flight-test-at-wallops/
Participants: -
Types: scienceresearchdevelopmentoperationsinfrastructure