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Launch Area 0 A

A launch pad at Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA.20 launches have flown from it since October 1995, 17 of 19 successfully.

Launches
20
Success rate
89.5% 17/19
Failures
2
First flight
1995-10-23
Latest flight
2023-08-02
Busiest year
2014 3 flights
Fastest turnaround
105d 6h 21m

Location

Launch Area 0 A

Pad record

Coordinates
37.8337° N
75.4881° W
Status
Active
Pad operator
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
LL2 pad tally
19 upstream count
Reference
Wikipedia

About this pad

LP-0A was first built for the failed Conestoga rocket program. The original launch tower was subsequently demolished in September 2008. A new pad facility was built from 2009 to 2011 for Orbital Sciences Taurus II, now renamed Antares.

Who launches from here

3 operators

Vehicles flown

7 types

Launches per year

decided flights
1995Peak 2014, 3 launches2023

Orbits delivered

1 destination
Low Earth Orbit 19

Scheduled

1 undecided
DateMissionVehicleOperatorOrbitOutcome
2027-12-31Firefly Alpha Block 2 | INCUSFirefly Alpha Block 2Firefly AerospaceLow Earth OrbitScheduled

Excluded from every count and rate above. Dates are as recorded at the last build, when the most recent decided flight was 2023-08-02.

Flight record

19 flights
DateMissionVehicleOperatorOrbitOutcome
2023-08-02Antares 230+ | Cygnus CRS-2 NG-19 (S.S. Laurel Clark)Antares 230+Northrop GrummanLow Earth OrbitSuccess
2022-11-07Antares 230+ | Cygnus CRS-2 NG-18 (S.S. Sally Ride)Antares 230+Northrop GrummanLow Earth OrbitSuccess
2022-02-19Antares 230+ | Cygnus CRS-2 NG-17 (S.S. Piers Sellers)Antares 230+Northrop GrummanLow Earth OrbitSuccess
2021-08-10Antares 230+ | Cygnus CRS-2 NG-16 (S.S. Ellison Onizuka)Antares 230+Northrop GrummanLow Earth OrbitSuccess
2021-02-20Antares 230+ | Cygnus CRS-2 NG-15 (S.S. Katherine Johnson)Antares 230+Northrop GrummanLow Earth OrbitSuccess
2020-10-03Antares 230+ | Cygnus CRS-2 NG-14 (S.S. Kalpana Chawla)Antares 230+Northrop GrummanLow Earth OrbitSuccess
2020-02-15Antares 230+ | Cygnus CRS-2 NG-13 (S.S. Robert H. Lawrence.)Antares 230+Northrop GrummanLow Earth OrbitSuccess
2019-11-02Antares 230+ | Cygnus CRS-2 NG-12 (S.S. Alan Bean)Antares 230+Northrop GrummanLow Earth OrbitSuccess
2019-04-17Antares 230 | Cygnus CRS NG-11 (S.S. Roger Chaffee)Antares 230Northrop GrummanLow Earth OrbitSuccess
2018-11-17Antares 230 | Cygnus CRS NG-10 (S.S. John Young)Antares 230Northrop GrummanLow Earth OrbitSuccess
2018-05-21Antares 230 | Cygnus CRS OA-9 (S.S. J.R. Thompson)Antares 230Northrop GrummanLow Earth OrbitSuccess
2017-11-12Antares 230 | Cygnus CRS OA-8 (S.S. Gene Cernan)Antares 230Northrop GrummanLow Earth OrbitSuccess
2016-10-17Antares 230 | Cygnus CRS OA-5 (S.S. Alan Poindexter)Antares 230Northrop GrummanLow Earth OrbitSuccess
2014-10-28Antares 130 | Cygnus CRS Orb-3 (S.S. Deke Slayton)Antares 130Northrop GrummanLow Earth OrbitFailure
2014-07-13Antares 120 | Cygnus CRS Orb-2 (S.S. Janice Voss)Antares 120Northrop GrummanLow Earth OrbitSuccess
2014-01-09Antares 120 | Cygnus CRS Orb-1 (S.S. C. Gordon Fullerton)Antares 120Northrop GrummanLow Earth OrbitSuccess
2013-09-18Antares 110 | Cygnus Orb-1 (S.S. G. David Low)Antares 110Northrop GrummanLow Earth OrbitSuccess
2013-04-21Antares 110 | Cygnus Mass SimulatorAntares 110Northrop Grumman–Success
1995-10-23Conestoga 1620 | Meteor SMConestoga 1620Space Services Inc.Low Earth OrbitFailure

Pad records from Launch Library 2. Flights and company identity fromSpace Index. How the numbers are derived.