White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) is a United States Army military testing area and firing range located in the US state of New Mexico. The range was originally...
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White Sands National Park is a national park of the United States located in New Mexico and completely surrounded by the White Sands Missile Range. The...
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The Pacific Missile Range Facility, Barking Sands (IATA: BKH, ICAO: PHBK, FAA LID: BKH) is a U.S. naval facility and airport located five nautical miles...
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west of Alamogordo, New Mexico, within the boundaries of the White Sands Missile Range. In 1976, NASA selected Northrup Strip as the site for shuttle pilot...
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Sands Missile Range. As of the 2010 census the population of the CDP was 1,651. It is part of the Las Cruces Metropolitan Statistical Area. The White...
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The Precision Strike Missile (PrSM) (pronounced PRI-sim) is a short-range ballistic missile developed by the United States Army to replace the MGM-140...
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of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency) on 27 June 1985 at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. This test, named Minor Scale, used 4,744 short...
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test of the Sprint missile took place at White Sands Missile Range on 17 November 1965.: 58 The "HIBEX" (high boost experiment) missile is considered to...
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from outer space. Launched on 24 October 1946, at the White Sands Missile Range in White Sands, New Mexico, the rocket reached a maximum altitude of 65 mi...
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four primary landing locations, including two sites inside the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, the Willcox Playa in Arizona and the Dugway Proving...
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2019. Retrieved August 24, 2014. "White Sands Missile Range > Trinity Site > Radioactivity". White Sands Missile Range, Public Affairs Office. March 8,...
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White Sands may refer to: White Sands, New Mexico, United States, residential area and national park of the White Sands Missile Range White Sands Missile...
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Launch Area Number 1, is an historic rocket launch complex at White Sands Missile Range in southern New Mexico. It was here that the United States first...
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Fort Bliss (redirect from McGregor Range Complex)
acres, ranging to the boundaries of the Lincoln National Forest and White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. Fort Bliss also includes the Castner Range National...
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and rocket propulsion systems. NASA established WSTF on the White Sands Missile Range in 1963. WSTF services are available to NASA, the United States...
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an electro-optical test facility located on the grounds of the White Sands Missile Range in Socorro, New Mexico. The ETS is operated by the laboratory...
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List of memorials to Bataan Death March victims (section White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, USA)
Death March is commemorated every year in March since 1993 at the White Sands Missile Range, northeast of Las Cruces, New Mexico, with a trail marathon known...
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Space Command. He previously served as commanding general of the White Sands Missile Range and deputy commanding general for developmental testing of the...
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Medium Extended Air Defense System (category Missile defense)
air traffic. Then, at White Sands Missile Range, MEADS demonstrated a first-ever over-the-shoulder launch of the PAC-3 MSE missile against a simulated target...
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designed for the same function in Project Mercury. Launched from White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, it was the smallest of four launch rockets used...
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USS Desert Ship (LLS-1) (category White Sands Missile Range)
Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range. 20 February 1945 – White Sands Proving Ground (WSPG) established as a missile test range. 26 September 1945 – A modified...
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major employer is the federal government on nearby White Sands Test Facility and White Sands Missile Range. The Organ Mountains, 10 miles (16 km) to the east...
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The group publishes standards through the RCC Secretariat at White Sands Missile Range. The best known IRIG standard is the IRIG timecode used to timestamp...
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RTV-G-4 Bumper (redirect from Bumper missile)
and July 29, 1950. The first six flights were conducted at the White Sands Missile Range; the seventh launch, Bumper 8 on July 24, 1950, was the first...
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MGM-31 Pershing (redirect from Pershing missile)
Artillery Group and the German Air Force missile wings when they launched missiles from White Sands Missile Range. The 85th U.S. Army Field Artillery Detachment...
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U.S. troops. In April 1991, the HIMARS concept was tested at White Sands Missile Range, using a modified Honest John launcher. HIMARS was then developed...
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"Army Launch Area Five") was the White Sands Missile Range facility for testing the Nike Zeus anti-ballistic missile. The site is located east of the...
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many tests as possible without the ISS rendezvous, and landed at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico on 22 December 2019. Upon landing, it was announced...
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McDonald Ranch House (category White Sands Missile Range)
1982. White Sands Missile Range commander United States Army Major General Niles J. Fulwyler, who had directed the restoration of the White Sands V-2 Launching...
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PGM-11 Redstone (redirect from Redstone ballistic missile)
Engine Appendix A: The Redstone Missile in Detail "Redstone at the White Sands Missile Range". White Sands Missile Range Museum. Archived from the original...
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