Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
NASA Wallops Conducts Ground Breaking for New Facility

Artist’s Sketch of the new Payload Processing Facility

NASA Wallops Flight Facility held a groundbreaking ceremony on May 20 to begin construction on a high-quality payload processing facility to support NASA's science and technology missions.

The new payload building will house two large bays reaching up to 70-feet high with cranes capable of lifting up to 40 tons. The building also will include project equipment rooms and two large project workspace rooms.

When complete, the building will accommodate the testing and processing of spacecraft and upper stage components of larger rockets prior to being moved to launch pads on Wallops Island. The new payload processing building will provide the much needed, higher quality space for the integration of satellites and launch vehicles such as the air-launched Pegasus.

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