Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport

Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport
An aerial view of the launch pads at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport and NASA's Wallops Flight Facility

The Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) is a commercial space launch facility located at the southern tip of NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on the Delmarva Peninsula south of Chincoteague, Virginia.

Background

In July 2003, Governors Robert Ehrlich of Maryland and Mark Warner of Virginia signed an agreement that directed the Secretary of Commerce and Trade of Virginia and the Secretary of Business and Economic Development of Maryland to form a working group to develop a concept and implementation plan for joint governance, operation and administration of the commercial spaceport at Wallops Island. The spaceport, then known as the Virginia Space Flight Center, had been developed, with a combination of federal, state and private sector funding, by the Virginia Commercial Space Flight Authority (VCSFA).

Launch history

The first rocket to be launched from MARS was an Orbital Sciences Minotaur, at 12:00 GMT on 16 December 2006, with two spacecraft, TacSat-2 for the US Air Force, and GeneSat-1 for NASA.[citation needed]

Launch Date (UTC) Vehicle Payload Launch pad Result Remarks
1 December 16, 2006 12:00 Minotaur I TacSat-2 / GeneSat-1 Pad 0B Success[citation needed]
2 April 24, 2007 06:48 Minotaur I NFIRE Pad 0B Success
3 August 22, 2008 09:10 ATK ALV X-1 Hy-BoLT and SOAREX VI Pad 0B Failure Went off-course, destroyed by range safety
4 May 19, 2009, 19:55 Minotaur I TacSat-3 Pad 0B Success[citation needed]
5 June 30, 2011 03:09 Minotaur I USAF ORS-1 Satellite Pad 0B Success
Scheduled launches
December 2011 Taurus II COTS Demo Mission Pad 0A Updated: 2011-05-07
2012 Taurus II 2 ISS re-supply missions Pad 0A Updated: 2011-05-07
May 2013 Minotaur V LADEE Pad 0B Updated: 2011-01-03
2013 Taurus II 2 ISS re-supply missions Pad 0A Updated: 2011-01-03
2014 Taurus II 2 ISS re-supply missions Pad 0A Updated: 2011-01-03
2015 Taurus II 2 ISS re-supply missions Pad 0A Updated: 2011-01-03

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Coordinates: 37°50′00″N 75°29′00″W / 37.833378°N 75.483284°W / 37.833378; -75.483284



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