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    Salto di Quirra is a restricted weapons testing range and rocket launch site near Perdasdefogu on the island of Sardinia. It is the largest military range...
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    economic sanctions. On May 6, 2022 engine testing campaign started at Salto di Quirra, Sardinia, with consequent maiden flight on a Vega-E launcher expected...
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    Bailey bridge segments, each weighing 35 tons.[dubious – discuss] At Salto di Quirra, Sardinia in 1965, a 30 metre tall Skylark tower was erected. The tower...
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    27, 1967, at Salto di Quirra the Zenit topped 145 km. The Zenit was later launched only twice — once on July 30, 1971, at Salto di Quirra with a British...
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    creation of military bases on the island, like Decimomannu Air Base and Salto di Quirra (the biggest scientific military base in Europe) in the same decades...
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  • multiple drop tests of the paraglider system on the rocket test area in Salto di Quirra in Sardinia was performed. The project was halted in 1966, after large...
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    test firing of the Vega's third stage was completed successfully at Salto di Quirra, Sardinia. For several years, further tests would be conducted at the...
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    between 1961 and 1970 at the CIEES launch facility at Hammaguir, the Salto di Quirra and Ile du Levant missile ranges, and Kourou Space Center. After its...
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  • abandoned as a launch site. In the mid-1950s its activities were transferred to the new ITAF facilities at Salto di Quirra, on Sardinia. v t e v t e...
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    Over 40 hours of flight-testing had been completed by then at the Salto di Quirra test range in Sardinia. Validation of flight controls had been completed...
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    with an upper stage mockup took place between 1973 and 1975, from Salto di Quirra. The Alfa was 6.5 metres (21 ft) long and had a diameter of 1.37 metres...
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    were launched from the CIEES/Hammaguir missile range, Reggane, CELPA, Salto di Quirra, Esrange, Thumba, Sonmiani, and Andøya. It had a maximum payload of...
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  • Rome Poligono Sperimentale e di Addestramento Interforze di Salto di Quirra (Joint Test and Training Range Salto di Quirra), in Perdasdefogu 2ª Divisione...
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  • Kourou – astronautix.com Rocket launch site Kiruna – astronautix.com Homepage of Esrange – ssc.se Rocket launch site Salto di Quirra – astronautix.com...
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    km2), an Irish Army artillery, live fire, and tactical training area Salto di Quirra (120 km2), an Italian interforce training area on Sardinia Drawsko...
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    The first test firing was carried out on 20 December 2005, at the Salto di Quirra Inter-force Test Range, on the Mediterranean coast in southeast Sardinia...
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    has been blamed for a high incidence of birth defects and cancer at Salto di Quirra on the Italian island of Sardinia. Thorium Energy Alliance Bismuth...
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    test missiles with inert second stages were successfully launched at Salto di Quirra in Sardinia, the last on 6 April 1976. However, the combination of...
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    contributing factor to a high incidence of birth defects and cancer near the Salto di Quirra weapons testing range on the Italian island of Sardinia. The Canadian...
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    Airbase) (Shavit 2) (Shavit 2)  Italy Italian Space Agency ASI 1988 (Salto di Quirra)  Japan Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency JAXA ジャクサ 1 Oct 2003 (Uchinoura)...
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  • sounding rockets for research in the upper atmosphere, produced at the Salto di Quirra military firing range in Sardinia, in the early 1960s.[citation needed]...
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    Algeria (HB3 track (330 m) of CIEES, built by Hotchkiss-Brandt) PISQ, Salto di Quirra, Sardinia, Italy (660-ft supersonic sled track with 8° inclination)...
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  • outer atmosphere. It was first launched on July 9, 1960, from the Salto di Quirra range. The project was managed by Lt.Col. Metallo (DGAM—Direzione Generali...
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    Escalaplano, Jerzu, Ulassai, Tertenia. Close to Perdasdefogu is the Salto di Quirra rocket launch site. The area was already inhabited in pre-nuragic and...
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  • Organisation. The first two ESRO sounding rockets were launches from the Salto di Quirra range in Sardinia on 6 and 8 July 1964. They released a payload of...
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    d'Urville, CELPA (El Chamical), CIEES, Kerguelen Islands, Kourou, Salto di Quirra, Sonmiani, Thumba, and Vík í Mýrdal between 1962 and 1973. Belier Centaure...
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    original on 6 September 2016. Retrieved 19 October 2017. Wade, Mark. "Salto di Quirra". Archived from the original on 28 December 2016. Retrieved 29 October...
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  • first launches of sounding rocket at the training shooting range of Salto di Quirra, in Sardinia. Starting from 1961, he was part of the San Marco programme...
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    by General Secretary of Aeronautics Mario Pezzi. The unit ran the Salto di Quirra rocket test range on Sardinia and Broglio would be involved in weather...
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    Oie Peenemünde Tuchola Forest Greece: Koroni India: Balasore Italy: Salto di Quirra Japan: Akita Nii-jima Obachi Ryori Kenya / Italy: Broglio, Malindi...
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