Active 🇺🇸United States
Wallops Flight Facility
A launch pad at Air launch to orbit.6 launches have flown from it since November 1996, 5 of 6 successfully.
Launches
6
Success rate
83.3% 5/6
Failures
1
First flight
1996-11-04
Latest flight
1999-12-04
Busiest year
1997 2 flights
Fastest turnaround
51d 12h 42m
Location
Pad record
- Coordinates
- 37.9386° N
75.4572° W - Status
- Active
- Spaceport
- Air launch to orbit
- Country
- United States
- LL2 pad tally
- 6 upstream count
- Reference
- Wikipedia
Who launches from here
1 operatorVehicles flown
2 typesLaunches per year
decided flights1996Peak 1997, 2 launches1999
Flight record
6 flights| Date | Mission | Vehicle | Operator | Orbit | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999-12-04 | Pegasus XL HAPS | Orbcomm-D2 - D8 | Pegasus XL HAPS | Northrop Grumman | – | Success |
| 1998-09-23 | Pegasus XL HAPS | Orbcomm-C1 - C8 | Pegasus XL HAPS | Northrop Grumman | – | Success |
| 1998-08-02 | Pegasus XL HAPS | Orbcomm-B1 - B8 | Pegasus XL HAPS | Northrop Grumman | – | Success |
| 1997-12-23 | Pegasus XL HAPS | Orbcomm-A1 - A8 | Pegasus XL HAPS | Northrop Grumman | – | Success |
| 1997-10-22 | Pegasus XL | Space Test Experiments Platform-4 (STEP-4) | Pegasus XL | Northrop Grumman | – | Success |
| 1996-11-04 | Pegasus XL | High Energy Transient Explorer (HETE) & Satelite de Aplicaciones Cientificas-B (SAC-B) | Pegasus XL | Northrop Grumman | – | Failure |
Pad records from Launch Library 2. Flights and company identity fromSpace Index. How the numbers are derived.