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<div style="text-align: right; direction: ltr; margin-left: 1em;">Orbiter 2016 coordinates 75.47938 W 37.84621 N</div>
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'''Wallops Flight Facility (WFF)''', located on the USA, is operated by NASA as a rocket launch site and for support to science and exploration missions.
  
'''Wallops Flight Facility (WFF)''', located on the [[USA]], is operated by [[NASA]] as a rocket launch site and for support to science and exploration missions.
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WFF consists of three separate parcels of real property totaling 6,200 acres (25 km²): the '''Main Base''', the '''Mainland''', and the '''Wallops Island Launch Site'''. The Mainland and the Wallops Island Launch Site are approximately 7 miles (11 km) southeast of the Main Base.
 
 
WFF consists of three parts: the '''Main Base''', the '''Mainland''', and the '''Wallops Island Launch Site'''.
 
  
 
==Pads and runways==
 
==Pads and runways==
*Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport
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* LA0
**LA0A   
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* LA0A   
**LA0B  
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* LA0B (Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport)
* LA1
 
 
* LA2  
 
* LA2  
 
* LA3  
 
* LA3  
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* LA3B  
 
* LA3B  
 
* LA4  
 
* LA4  
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* LA1
 
* LA5  
 
* LA5  
 
* DZ (Air-launched rocket drop zone)  
 
* DZ (Air-launched rocket drop zone)  
 
* LP08B  
 
* LP08B  
*Runways (WFF Research Airport, Wallops Main Base):
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* RW04/22 Runway, WFF Research Airport, Wallops Main Base
** RW04/22, 2666x46m
 
** RW10/28, 2440x61m
 
** RW17/35, 1465x46m
 
 
 
==Frequencies==
 
*ASOS : 119.17
 
*Tower: 126.5
 
 
 
==Charts and diagrams==
 
*[http://skyvector.com/airport/WAL/Wallops-Flight-Facility-Airport http://skyvector.com/airport/WAL/Wallops-Flight-Facility-Airport]
 
 
 
==External links==
 
*[http://www.nasa.gov/centers/wallops/home/ http://www.nasa.gov/centers/wallops/home/]
 
*[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NASA_Wallops_Flight_Facility,_2010.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NASA_Wallops_Flight_Facility,_2010.jpg]
 
*[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MLAS_liftoff_at_Wallops_Flight_Facility_001.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MLAS_liftoff_at_Wallops_Flight_Facility_001.jpg]
 
*[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wallops_Research_Range.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wallops_Research_Range.jpg]
 
*[http://www.nasa.gov/centers/wallops/images/content/417989main_wallops-aerial-full.jpg http://www.nasa.gov/centers/wallops/images/content/417989main_wallops-aerial-full.jpg]
 
*[http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/sseop/images/ESC/large/ISS016/ISS016-E-36245.jpg The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth]
 
*[http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/sseop/images/ESC/large/ISS013/ISS013-E-25366.jpg The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth]
 
*[http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/sseop/images/ESC/large/ISS013/ISS013-E-25364.jpg The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth]
 
*[http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/scripts/sseop/QuickView.pl?directory=ESC&ID=ISS013-E-25365 The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth]
 
 
 
[[Category:Articles]]
 
[[Category:Real spaceports]]
 
[[Category:Surface bases]]
 
[[Category:USA]]
 
[[Category:NASA]]
 

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