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NASA
Seasons Change in Southwest Virginia
As the seasons sweep through southwest Virginia, the lush summer landscape transforms, fading into fall and winter. From October 4 to December 6, 2025, the forests in this animation turn from green to orange to brown before being blanketed by white snow. The animation is composed of images from Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 (HLS), a NASA product that combines imagery from the…
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NASA Awards Launch Range Contract for Wallops Flight Facility
NASA has selected ARES Technical Services Corporation of McLean, Virginia, to provide launch range operations support at the agency’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The Wallops Range Contract has a total potential value of $339.8 million with a one-year base period expected to begin Tuesday, Feb. 10, and four one-year option periods that if exercised would extend it to 2031.…
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T-Mobile Shows Virginia Love with $50,000 Donation to Nonprofit Organizations
T-Mobile (NASDAQ: TMUS) today announced a donation totaling $50,000 to five Virginia nonprofit organizations that are making a difference in their communities. The organizations — Blue Ridge Area Food Bank, Children’s Hospital Foundation of Richmond at VCU, H.E.R. – Help and Emergency Response, The Fatherhood Foundation of Virginia, and the United Service Organization (USO) — each received a $10,000 donation. In a show of hands-on support, local…
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T-Mobile Expands 5G Network Coverage in Virginia
What’s the news: T-Mobile has upgraded 5G service across nearly 32,000 square miles of the Old Dominion State, covering nearly 97% of Virginians. Why it matters: T-Mobile’s network investment provides more capacity, coverage, reliability, and speed than ever before in Virginia. Who it’s for: Wireless users from Fairfax, South Hill, Cape Charles to Wytheville and everywhere in between. BELLEVUE, Wash.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– T-Mobile (NASDAQ: TMUS)…
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Rocket Lab Successfully Launches First Electron Mission from U.S. Soil
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) (“Rocket Lab” or “the Company”), a leading launch and space systems company, today successfully launched its 33rd Electron rocket and first mission from Virginia. The “Virginia is for Launch Lovers” mission lifted off at 18:00 EST on January 24th from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 (LC-2) at Virginia Space’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport within NASA’s Wallops Flight…
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Electron Rocket Arrives at Launch Complex 2 for Rocket Lab’s Inaugural Mission from Virginia
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) (“Rocket Lab” or “the Company”), a leading launch and space systems company, today announced the Electron rocket to be launched in the Company’s first mission from U.S. soil has arrived at Launch Complex 2 in Virginia. “We are looking forward to seeing Electron take to Virginia skies for the first time very soon”Tweet this…
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Amazon Commits $124 Million to Create More Than 1,000 Affordable Homes near Transit Stations in Washington state’s Puget Sound region and the Arlington, Virginia region
Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced it will invest over $124.4 million to build 1,060 affordable homes near four public transit sites and work in partnership with the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (Metro) and Sound Transit, the transit system serving the Central Puget Sound region of Washington state, to complete the housing developments. The new deals stem from Amazon’s $300 million transit commitment from 2021 to create…
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Redline Communications and Morcom International Provides Unprecedented Wireless Connectivity to Arlington County in Virginia
Redline Communications Group Inc. (“Redline Communications”) (TSX:RDL), a leading-edge provider of industrial wireless broadband network connectivity solutions for mission-critical applications, and Morcom International, Inc., an industry leader in the design and implementation of broadband wireless infrastructure systems, announces today the installation of Redline’s 3GPP iLTE network in Arlington County, Va. This industrial-grade broadband wireless solution utilizes the Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) spectrum and provides improved broadband access,…
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NASA’s Moon to Mars Economic Impact Study Shows Significant Benefit for Virginia
HAMPTON, Va., Sept. 28, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — NASA recently released an assessment of the economic impacts of NASA and the Moon to Mars (M2M) program for the nation as a whole, and each of the fifty states. The study shows Virginia is one of the most impacted states. NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, directly contributes to this impact through jobs and partnerships with Virginia industry. NASA’s…
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