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Wallops Island |
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Wallops Island (wäl`ləps), island, 6 sq mi (15.5 sq km), Accomack co., E Va., off the Atlantic coast of the Delmarva pensinsula S of Chincoteaque island. NASA has a facility there and on the neighboring mainland; the island is one of the oldest rocket launch sites (est. 1945) in the world. Launches are primarily of sounding rockets. |
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| The reusable hypersonic glider will lift off from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility at Wallops Island, Va. Krabill, a glaciologist at NASA's Wallops Island (Va. GOES time at the CDA was synchronized by NIST personnel using a number of techniques throughout the years, including the use of television signals from nearby Norfolk, Virginia, LORAN-C transmissions from Cape Fear, North Carolina [29, 30], portable clock carries from Boulder to Wallops Island [39], and eventually through the use of GPS signals [32]. |
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