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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.

NASA Sounding Rockets Program
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Identity

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

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.
Leads
Participants
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Start Date
1959

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Creation Time
July 29, 2026 at 11:17:43 UTC
Updated Time
August 22, 2026 at 13:52:44 UTC
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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/