Talk:Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport

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 * (sdsds - talk) 23:20, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

Article is missing much
How many launch pads are at this spaceport? Now, currently operational? Historically? What is the scope of the spaceport? Private and Military? NASA is contracting for private spaceflights-- does NASA also control any of this spaceport like NASA does at Kennedy Space Center? How large is the spaceport? What is the annual budget for the spaceport? How much of that is subsidized by the government? By the Commonwealth of Virginia? By various Federal government agencies? I'll start looking for some of this info, but that is just a start on what would make this a better Wikipedia article. N2e (talk) 14:38, 19 December 2011 (UTC)


 * I have confirmed one answer to the above set of questions. NASA does not use the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS).  Rather, MARS is located at the southern tip of the (larger?) NASA facility on Wallops Island, the Wallops Flight Facility.  Even though NASA has considerable facilities there on Wallops Island, the MARS launch of a Minotaur I in 2006 was the first orbital launch from Wallops since 1985 (this is now documented, with sources, in the article).  Cheers.  N2e (talk) 18:02, 19 December 2011 (UTC)

Need a recent photo of the NEW launch pad, the only one that is a part of the MAR Spaceport
The article would be much improved with a recent photo of the NEW launch pad, Launch Pad 0A (without the Wallops Flight Facility facilities in the background). After all, only LP 0 is a part of MARS, and so the photo of MARS should not really be the same old 2008 photo of the entire WFF when it used to, jurisdictionally, include LP0. Will add a reqphoto. N2e (talk) 00:53, 5 July 2012 (UTC)
 * ✅ Morgan Riley (talk) 20:50, 19 April 2013 (UTC)

Possible use by Bigelow Aerospace or for human spaceflight more generally
A number of recent news reports have spoken of possibly bringing human space flight to Wallops Island, generally with Bigelow Aerospace at the center of them. Not clear whether the push for HSF is only related to Bigelow, or is more broadly supported and may have legs even sans Bigelow. Here is one such source: Human spaceflight a possibility for Wallops Island, WKTR News, 19 February 2014.

It is also not clear from what is in the news stories whether the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport is being considered, or if it is rather an initiative to get NASA to upgrade their adjacent Wallops Flight Facility to support human space transport. When we get more sources that clear this up, this would be good info to improve the article. N2e (talk) 17:32, 24 February 2014 (UTC)

Antares failure
Shouldn't that be 'catastrophic failure' to distinguish the event from simple failures? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.174.156.25 (talk) 03:24, 29 October 2014 (UTC)

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"[clarification needed] in the Launch History section"
In 2013 April there was a clarification that was asked for, by user Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport: Difference between revisions. Which said "MARS is one of the older launch sites in the world, NASA/NACA have been launching rockets from it since the 1950s. Source also doesn't support the claim. Maybe this was the first "orbital" launch?". The sources here and here seem to confirm that "The first rocket to be launched from Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport was an Orbital Sciences Minotaur I, at 12:00 GMT on 16 December 2006, with two spacecraft, TacSat-2 for the US Air Force, and GeneSat-1 for NASA." is correct. The MARS facility and pad 0A and 0B seem to be built in the 2000s. However, Wallops Island where MARS is built on has had launches before 2006. So what do you think we should change this to, because that statement about the 2006 launch being the first is technically correct. So in essence MARS is not the same as Wallops right, just checking to see if I am interpreting the sources correctly? Sorry if I sound harsh, I do not intend to. Thanks for taking the time to read this! 173.52.238.41 (talk) 02:01, 21 April 2019 (UTC)

Name
The article doesn't mention where the strange name comes from. Why is it supposedly in the middle of the Atlantic? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.132.215.22 (talk) 17:13, 17 July 2020 (UTC)