{"id":507177,"date":"2026-03-06T11:51:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T11:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/507177\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T11:51:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T11:51:11","slug":"nasa-wallops-supports-first-rocket-lab-haste-launch-of-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/507177\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA Wallops Supports First Rocket Lab HASTE Launch of 2026\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s Wallops Flight Facility supported a Rocket Lab HASTE suborbital launch from the company\u2019s Launch Complex 2 in Virginia on Feb. 27, 2026. The mission, called Cassowary Vex, supported a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.diu.mil\/latest\/cassowary-vex-mission-success-diu-achieves-suborbital-launch-of-hypersonic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">flight of a hypersonic test platform<\/a>\u00a0for the Department of\u00a0War\u2019s\u00a0Defense Innovation Unit.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The NASA Wallops launch range\u00a0supported by providing services such as tracking, telemetry, and range safety to ensure a safe and successful mission.\u00a0NASA\u00a0Wallops plays a key role in enabling national security missions at its launch range for commercial partners and other government agencies.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Image Credit: NASA\/ Danielle Johnson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s Wallops Flight Facility supported a Rocket Lab HASTE suborbital launch from the company\u2019s Launch Complex 2 in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":507178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[944,79,193,17288],"class_list":["post-507177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-goddard-space-flight-center","tag-science","tag-space","tag-wallops-flight-facility"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}