Wallops Island News

For most college students, getting up early is a dreaded and despised task. Heather Gowton is not one of these students, however, as she is often crawling through the marshes of Wallops Island, Va., in search ...

Northrop Grumman is breaking ground on a new facility at Wallops Island in Accomack County on Virginia's Eastern Shore.

A Chimera target launch vehicle successfully blasts off at 11:57 p.m. Tuesday from north Vandenberg Air Force Base.

A modified Minuteman rocket launch set for tonight or Wednesday morning will support a missile-defense mission to collect data while tracking the target with an orbiting satellite.

SNOW HILL -- Developers for Captain's Cove, a residential development just south of the Worcester County border, have filed for bankruptcy protection after defaulting on about $18 million in loans.

A TROPICAL STORM WARNING IS NOW IN EFFECT FROM NORTH OF THE NORTH CAROLINA/VIRGINIA BORDER TO MERRIMACK RIVER MASSACHUSETTS...INCLUDING PAMLICO AND ALBEMARLE SOUNDS...ALL OF CHESAPEAKE BAY...THE TIDAL ...

A rocket carrying the $17M hypersonic-research equipment flew off course and was detonated.

A devastating hurricane struck the Eastern Shore of Virginia on Wednesday, Aug. 23, 1933 -- 75 years ago today -- and at the height of the storm the local correspondent from Harborton sat down to write her ...

WALLOPS ISLAND -- A suborbital rocket carrying two NASA experiments costing $11 million was destroyed after it veered off course soon after liftoff early Friday, sending fragments raining into the Atlantic ...

Wallops Island, Va. NASA says the rocket launch planned for early Friday morning from the Wallops Island launch facility has been approved, and should take place between 5:10 and 6:10 a.m. Information was ...

PORTSMOUTH, Va. - The Coast Guard will set and maintain a security zone in the vicinity of Wallops Island, Va., for a NASA rocket launch scheduled for Friday morning.

"Yesteryears" is a column I always appreciate and the Aug. 6 paper was no exception.

STATUS REPORT Date Released: Monday, July 28, 2008 Source: Wallops Flight Facility - Comments Synopsis - Jul 25, 2008 Draft Document - Posted on Jul 25, 2008 General Information Solicitation Number: ...

The Northampton County Board of Supervisors approved an initiative by the NASA Wallops Flight Facility to coordinate an environmental impact review for the entire 2008 Eastern Shore broadband effort.

CHINCOTEAGUE -- 'This is awesome,' was the first words out of the mouth of Darin Fitzgerald of Malvern, N.J. after returning to the boat from his first parasailing adventure.

CHINCOTEAGUE -- The Wallops Island Navy Public Safety Program and the town of Chincoteague will be hosting a celebration to commemorate Chincoteague's 100th Anniversary, and the Third Annual National Night Out ...

On July 11, Commander Gerald D. Herman relieved Captain Michael D. Anderson as Commanding Officer of Surface Combat Systems Center, Wallops Island, at a ceremony that was full of Navy tradition.

Quick action Saturday from local firefighters saved a building on Church Street here and possibly a neighboring home and St.

WALLOPS ISLAND -- Orbital Sciences Corporation's announcement last week that it will locate its new space launch vehicle project at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport here comes at a good time for Accomack ...

Orbital will invest approximately $45 million to assemble, test and launch the Taurus II space launch vehicle.