BALTIMORE, MD—A rare comet that only visits Earth every 80,000 years will be visible in the evening sky in the Northern Hemisphere this week. Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS was 44 million miles from Earth as of this past Saturday and should be visible to the naked eye in the western sky shortly after sunset. The comet will be visible through […]
BALTIMORE, MD—A rocket launch at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility will be visible in Maryland on Tuesday morning. The RockSat-X mission launch from Wallops on August 13, 2024. The launch window opens at 6:00 a.m. EDT. The Terrier-Improved Malemute rocket will carry student-designed experiments to suborbital space. The experiments were developed by nine university and community college teams as part of […]
BALTIMORE, MD—This summer, NASA will be flying aircraft over major cities across the U.S. to collect data on air pollutants and greenhouse gas emissions as part of a NASA Student Airborne Research Program. From June 17 to July 2, the planes will fly over Baltimore, Philadelphia, parts of Virginia, and California. They will be collecting data on carbon dioxide and […]
BALTIMORE, MD—A NASA rocket launch will be visible in Maryland on Thursday morning. A RockOn sounding rocket and RockSat-C launch will launch from Wallops on June 18, 2024. The launch window opens at 5:30 a.m. EDT. The project will carry student experiments to suborbital space. These missions provide students with real-world, hands-on opportunities building and launching an experiment. Portions of […]
ANNAPOLIS, MD—The Maryland Department of Commerce has signed a new memorandum of understanding with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center to bolster the state’s aerospace industry. The three-year agreement will support growth in Maryland’s aerospace economy in the area surrounding Goddard, located in Greenbelt, and on the Lower Eastern Shore near the rocket launch site Wallops Flight Facility. Under the three-year […]
BALTIMORE, MD—Marylanders are gearing up for Monday’s solar eclipse. On April 8, 2024, a total solar eclipse will cross North America, passing over Mexico, the United States, and Canada. A total solar eclipse happens when the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth, completely blocking the face of the Sun. In the path of totality, the sky will darken as […]
BALTIMORE, MD—Attention, night owls and early risers! A rocket launch should be visible in Maryland during the overnight hours. NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility will support Rocket Lab‘s Electron launch for the National Reconnaissance Office no earlier than March 21 at 2:15 a.m. ET. The launch window is 2:15 – 6:30 a.m. ET. Currently, weather is 80% favorable for launch. A […]
BALTIMORE, MD—Next month’s solar eclipse will be accompanied by three separate rocket launches by NASA. On April 8, during the total solar eclipse, three sounding rockets will launch from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility as a part of the Apophis mission. The three sounding rockets will launch for the Atmospheric Perturbations around the Eclipse Path (APEP) mission, which will study how […]