Range Data Acquisition & Computation (RADAC) System

Engineers at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia have upgraded the range data acquisition and control infrastructure for the nation’s leading suborbital launch range. Wallops’ Range Data Acquisition and Computation system known as RADAC processes flight-tracking data for the Wallops Range Control Center and vans. Range Safety operators rely on RADAC data to make real-time flight termination decisions, monitor and track mission performance, identify recovery locations, and other mission critical operations for suborbital rockets, missiles, remotely piloted vehicles, aircraft, balloons, and satellites.