Virginia Spaceport Authority

The Virginia Spaceport Authority (VSA) is a political subdivision of the Commonwealth of Virginia. The VSA owns and operates the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS), the MARS Unmanned Systems Test Range, the MARS Payload Processing Facility, and an Integration and Control Facility in Wallops Research Park. The mission of the Virginia Spaceport Authority and MARS is to operate and maintain a spaceport for small and mid-class rocket systems to support flawless launch to orbit for government, domestic, and international customers, provide state-of-the-art secure facilities for training & testing of unmanned systems and serve as a key driver of the Commonwealth’s economic development.
 
Virginia continues to play a critical role in national security and assured access to space as one of only four states in the United States hosting a spaceport licensed by the FAA to launch spacecraft into orbit or on interplanetary trajectories. For more information, visit www.vaspace.org.