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U.S. rocket engine test facility in New Mexico
White Sands Test Facility (WSTF) is a NASA rocket engine test facility and a resource for testing and evaluating potentially hazardous materials, space
White_Sands_Test_Facility
NASA training and research site
White Sands Test Facility, and is located approximately 30 miles (50 kilometers) west of Alamogordo, New Mexico, within the boundaries of the White Sands
White_Sands_Space_Harbor
Military testing area in New Mexico, US
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
White_Sands_Missile_Range
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Army White Sands Test Facility, operated by NASA, and including: White Sands Space Harbor White Sands National Park, desert of white sand dunes in New
White_Sands
United States naval facility and airport in Hawaii
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
Pacific Missile Range Facility
Pacific_Missile_Range_Facility
NASA facility in Houston, Texas
second-site lunar materials were then moved to the White Sands Test Facility, where a new, smaller facility was built inside an existing secure building to
Lunar Sample Laboratory Facility
Lunar_Sample_Laboratory_Facility
The White Sands Test Center (WSTC) was responsible for planning and conducting tests at White Sands Missile Range (WSMR), New Mexico, USA. WSTC reported
White_Sands_Test_Center
Location where rocket engines may be tested on the ground, under controlled conditions
Elkton Controls) Marshall Space Flight Center Plum Brook Station White Sands Test Facility (WSTF) at Las Cruces, New Mexico Stennis Space Center at Hancock
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NASA research facility in Ohio
the Neil A. Armstrong Test Facility. The B-2 Spacecraft Propulsion Research Facility is the world's only facility capable of testing full-scale, upper-stage
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Overview of NASA field centers
Space Center White Sands Test Facility Kennedy Space Center Langley Research Center Marshall Space Flight Center Michoud Assembly Facility Stennis Space
NASA_facilities
City in New Mexico, United States
city's major employer is the federal government at nearby White Sands Test Facility and White Sands Missile Range. Spaceport America, which has corporate
Las_Cruces,_New_Mexico
American rocket engine
Oxygen / Liquid Methane Test Results of the RS-18 Lunar Ascent Engine at Simulated Altitude Conditions at NASA White Sands Test Facility" (PDF). AIAA. "Fiscal
RS-18
NASA research facility in Southern California
of Johns Hopkins University. The facility took its current name on 1 March 2014, honoring Neil Armstrong, a former test pilot at the center and the first
Armstrong Flight Research Center
Armstrong_Flight_Research_Center
Force Base runways, making a total of fifty-nine. White Sands Space Harbor at White Sands Test Facility in New Mexico was an emergency landing site for
List of Space Shuttle landing sites
List_of_Space_Shuttle_landing_sites
Gun designed to generate very high speed
1.5 in (38 mm) at Ames Research Center. Hazardous testing is conducted at White Sands Test Facility. These guns have been used in support of various missions
Light-gas_gun
Aerospace ground test facility in New Mexico, U.S.
New Mexico. It is adjacent to the White Sands Missile Range and is operated by the 846th Test Squadron of the 704th Test Group of the Arnold Engineering
Holloman High Speed Test Track
Holloman_High_Speed_Test_Track
Very high velocity
studies the effects of simulated orbital debris at the White Sands Test Facility Remote Hypervelocity Test Laboratory (RHTL). Objects smaller than 10cm in diameter
Hypervelocity
First crewed Moon landing (1969)
Laboratory Facility at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. For safekeeping, there is also a smaller collection stored at White Sands Test Facility
Apollo_11
NASA/ESA space telescope launched in 1990
(18-meter) diameter high-gain microwave antennas located at the White Sands Test Facility in White Sands, New Mexico. From there they are sent to the Space Telescope
Hubble_Space_Telescope
NASA operations facility in Texas
operations at White Sands Test Facility in New Mexico, which served as a backup Space Shuttle landing site and would have been the coordinating facility for the
Johnson_Space_Center
NASA crewed Moon landing spacecraft (1969–1972)
1972. The first two flown were tests in low Earth orbit: Apollo 5, without a crew; and Apollo 9 with a crew. A third test flight in low lunar orbit was
Apollo_Lunar_Module
24,024 ft (7,323 m) Notes ^B Unpaved runway part of the White Sands Test Facility/White Sands Missile Range ^C Unpaved runway located on Rogers Dry Lake
List_of_longest_runways
NASA research facility in Virginia
2004. Langley retained transonic wind tunnel testing capabilities facilities in the National Transonic Facility, a high pressure, cryogenically cooled 8.2
Langley_Research_Center
Rocks on or from the Moon
Laboratory Facility at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. For safekeeping, there is also a smaller collection stored at White Sands Test Facility
Moon_rock
American Navy facility in New Mexico
surface-to-air weapons testing at the Naval Surface Warfare Center Port Hueneme (NSWC PHD) White Sands Detachment – White Sands. The beginning of construction
USS_Desert_Ship_(LLS-1)
Airport in Bayingolin Mongol AP, Xinjiang
Malan Airbase is a Chinese test facility in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Originally built to support China’s nuclear weapons program, it is now increasingly
Malan_Air_Base
Interplanetary radio communication station
rest of the facility was dismantled and knocked down. Its foundation, access road and parking area are all that remains of the facility. As of late 2016
Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex
Canberra_Deep_Space_Communication_Complex
Missile testing facility
Complex 38 (originally "Army Launch Area Five") was the White Sands Missile Range facility for testing the Nike Zeus anti-ballistic missile. The site is located
White_Sands_Launch_Complex_38
Primary power and propulsion component of the Orion spacecraft
This service module was not required for Exploration Flight Test-1 in 2014, as this used a test service module supplied by Lockheed Martin. On 17 November
European_Service_Module
Rocket engine
variant, called RS-72 Pathfinder, successfully completed 14 tests at the White Sands Test Facility, reaching a 60 second burn time at 100% power in May 2000
Aestus
American television producer (born 1932)
London, New York, Calcutta, Sri Lanka, and at the NASA White Sands Test Facility in White Sands, New Mexico. In 2013, Schwartz produced Masters of Illusion
Al_Schwartz_(producer)
All-weather, precision radio guidance system
Moorehead (1989). NASA SP-504: Space Shuttle Avionics System NASA White Sands Test Facility Launch and Landing Support - Navigational Aids. Retrieved 2004-11-12
Microwave_landing_system
Industrial research and development facilities in California
Runkle Creek. SSFL was a United States government facility dedicated to the development and testing of nuclear reactors, powerful rockets such as the
Santa_Susana_Field_Laboratory
Set of tracking stations built to support early American space programs
geostationary communication satellites, and a single ground station at White Sands Test Facility. After Apollo, the MSFN no longer needed the large antennas that
Manned_Space_Flight_Network
Topics referred to by the same term
Test Forum - provides an interoperability test framework for the Web Service community White Sands Test Facility - a NASA rocket engine test facility
WSTF
U.S. Air Force flight testing facility
before July 2012, is an Air Force Material Command facility under the control of the Air Force Test Center (AFTC). Named for General Henry H. Arnold, the
Arnold Engineering Development Complex
Arnold_Engineering_Development_Complex
American astronaut and physician (born 1949)
at the White Sands Test Facility, an alternative landing site. She performed this duty again at Edwards Air Force Base for STS-2, at White Sands again
Anna_Lee_Fisher
Directed energy weapon
later 1990s and early 2000s, it was located at the former MAR-1 facility in the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The beam size in the resonator is
MIRACL
NASA research facility in Maryland
the White Sands Complex, a set of two sites in Las Cruces, New Mexico, but the site is owned by Johnson Space Center as part of the White Sands Test Facility
Goddard_Space_Flight_Center
American engineer and business manager
engineer at the White Sands Test Facility while still a student at New Mexico State. As only the second woman to work at the facility, after graduation
Kathy_Lueders
Restricted military installation in Nevada
Administration proposed to move its facilities on the Tonopah Test Range to White Sands Missile Range, a move that local and state politicians say would
Tonopah_Test_Range
Boeing Starliner spacecraft
and sent the problematic service module to White Sands Test Facility in New Mexico for more valve tests. For the new Service module, Boeing has made
Boeing_Starliner_Spacecraft_2
American rocket
including Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Virginia, and Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. Launch Complex 36 at White Sands Missile Range, previously
Little_Joe_II
Annual space colony design competition
California), NASA Johnson Space Center (Houston, Texas), and NASA White Sands Test Facility (Las Cruces, New Mexico). The idea of a semi-finalist competition
International Space Settlement Design Competition
International_Space_Settlement_Design_Competition
Military unit
former USAAF bombing range and the White Sands Proving Ground merged to become the New Mexico Joint Guided Missile Test Range. The former USAAF air base
Air Force Missile Development Center
Air_Force_Missile_Development_Center
Correlation between UFO reports and atomic sites
Hanford White Sands Muroc Oak Ridge Since 1947, United States media coverage has speculated that UFO reports might be linked to atomic sites. In June
UFO_reports_and_atomic_sites
Military unit
system testing, radar signature measurements, weapon systems flight testing, and Air Force liaison for all AF programs tested at White Sands Missile
96th_Test_Group
1982 American crewed spaceflight
flooded. Lousma and Fullerton chose to land at White Sands instead of the new Shuttle Landing Facility (SLF) at Kennedy Space Center (KSC) because they
STS-3
Runway located at Kennedy Space Center
landed at White Sands Space Harbor) while the landing facility continued testing and Shuttle crews developed landing skills at White Sands and Edwards
Shuttle_Landing_Facility
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missiles classified according to their range Missile test range Pacific Missile Range Facility White Sands Missile Range Spaceport Pacific Missile Range This
Missile_range
Prototype and design concept demonstrator rocket
Engineering in Huntsville, Alabama. The engines were hot-fire tested at White Sands Test Facility in 2007 and 2008 to verify that they could perform the pulsing
Ares_I-X
US Cold War rocket launch installation
The Utah Launch Complex was a Cold War military subinstallation of White Sands Missile Range for USAF and US Army rocket launches. In addition to firing
Green_River_Launch_Complex
Andøya Space Center, Esrange Space Center, Kauai Test Facility, Tonopah Test Range and White Sands Missile Range. "Malemute". www.astronautix.com. Retrieved
Malemute
Type of unconventional oil deposit
Oil sands are a type of unconventional petroleum deposit. They are either loose sands, or partially consolidated sandstone containing a naturally occurring
Oil_sands
US Navy effort to develop surface-to-air missiles
White Sands Missile Range in 1951, where USS Desert Ship (LLS-1) was built as a prototype Talos launch facility. The RIM-2 Terrier, devised as a test
Operation_Bumblebee
Pulsed nuclear reactor radiation source
also suffered accidental excursions, for example: 28 May 1965 at the White Sands Missile Range (parts were thrown 15 feet (4.6 m)); and 6 September 1968
Godiva_device
Nonfunctional spacecraft or payload
Facility, Downey, California to test the LES transonic abort flight performance at White Sands Missile Range. BP-13 with mission AS-101 (SA-6) test flight
Boilerplate_(spaceflight)
US Navy R&D installation in California
naval units at Kirtland AFB in Albuquerque and at the White Sands Missile Range at White Sands, NM as a single command - the Naval Air Warfare Center
Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake
Naval_Air_Weapons_Station_China_Lake
River Launch Complex (1964—1975) in Utah for Athena/ABRES testing of reentry vehicles to White Sands Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39 39A (1967—), leased
List_of_launch_complexes
Military unit
the 96th Test Group in an administrative reorganization. The Group served as the Air Force's liaison with the United States Army White Sands Missile Range
46th_Test_Group
Usability in high-oxygen environments
Systems. NASA/TM-2007-213740 (Report). Johnson Space Center; White Sands Test Facility: NASA. {{cite report}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)CS1
Oxygen_compatibility
Class of partially reusable crew capsules
to the Teflon seals. While the on-orbit issues were replicated in tests at White Sands using hardware intended for future flights, they could not be reproduced
Boeing_Starliner
American GPS-guided "bunker buster" bomb
to be used with the B-2 Spirit. It was first tested in March 2007, in a DTRA tunnel at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. In July 2007, Northrop
GBU-57A/B_MOP
Genus of mammals (large antelopes)
Albuquerque, NM and El Paso, TX, is a 3,200 square mile US Army facility which also hosts White Sands National Park. Researchers believed that the population
Oryx
American spaceport in Virginia
Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) Marine Science Consortium (MSC) White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) It has also worked with the National Security Agency
Wallops_Flight_Facility
German-American rocket engineer and scientist (1908–1983)
Army's rocket and space projects; larger rockets were launched first from White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, and later from Cape Canaveral. The Army
Kurt_Debus
US Army post in New Mexico and Texas, US
and second-largest in the Army overall, the largest being the adjacent White Sands Missile Range. Fort Bliss provides the largest contiguous tract (1,500 sq mi
Fort_Bliss
McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst) Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division, White Sands Detachment Naval Support Facility Saratoga Springs Naval Computer and Telecommunications
List of United States Navy installations
List_of_United_States_Navy_installations
American short-range ballistic missile
Nuclear Science and History, Albuquerque, New Mexico White Sands Missile Range Museum, White Sands, New Mexico Evergreen Aviation Museum, McMinnville,
PGM-11_Redstone
Uncrewed flight test of the Boeing Starliner spacecraft
and landing in the White Sands Missile Range on 25 May 2022. The capsule carried approximately 245 kg (540 lb) of supplies and test equipment to simulate
Boeing_Orbital_Flight_Test_2
Yar, in the USA at White Sands Proving Grounds, Cape Canaveral, and on the USS Midway during Operation Sandy. Launch Sites: P-VI = Test Stand VI (Prüfstand
List_of_V-2_test_launches
Graben basin in the Southwestern United States
include White Sands National Park, Oliver Lee Memorial State Park, the Carrizozo Malpais lava flow, Holloman Air Force Base, and the White Sands Missile
Tularosa_Basin
to El Paso, Texas, for a refueling stop before flying over the White Sands Test Facility in New Mexico and over Tucson, Arizona, in tribute to retired
2012_in_aviation
Weapons testing for US Navy
Naval Air Special Weapons Facility (NASWF) to conduct special weapons tests on the White Sands Missile Range and Tonopah Test Range in coordination with
Naval Weapons Evaluation Facility
Naval_Weapons_Evaluation_Facility
US Air Force base near Alamogordo, New Mexico, United States
Holloman range and the White Sands Proving Ground merged to become the New Mexico Joint Guided Missile Test Range (later renamed White Sands Missile Range),
Holloman_Air_Force_Base
American astronomical survey for identifying and tracking near-Earth objects
Experimental Test Site (ETS) on the White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) near Socorro, New Mexico. In the late 1970s, the Lincoln Laboratory's Experimental Test Site
Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research
Lincoln_Near-Earth_Asteroid_Research
Air- and missile-defense system
2012 at White Sands Missile Range, MEADS detected, tracked, intercepted, and destroyed an air-breathing target in an intercept flight test. The test configuration
Medium Extended Air Defense System
Medium_Extended_Air_Defense_System
United States historic place
The Space Flight Operations Facility (SFOF) is a building containing a control room and related computing and communications equipment areas at the Jet
Space Flight Operations Facility
Space_Flight_Operations_Facility
United States anti-ballistic missile program
Aegis Ashore Missile Defense Test Complex and Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF), successfully conducted the first flight test involving components of the
Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System
Aegis_Ballistic_Missile_Defense_System
List of large explosions
test was conducted by the United States Defense Nuclear Agency (now part of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency) on 27 June 1985 at the White Sands Missile
Largest artificial non-nuclear explosions
Largest_artificial_non-nuclear_explosions
City in New Mexico, United States
1912. Tourism became an important economic factor with the creation of White Sands National Park in 1933, which is still one of the biggest attractions
Alamogordo,_New_Mexico
Canadian Black Brant IX, serial number 36.243, launched from LC-36 at the White Sands Missile Range. The launch occurred at 05:32 UTC on 11 January, making
Suborbital spaceflight in 2008
Suborbital_spaceflight_in_2008
American astronaut (1936–2013)
stress and tested the 50-foot (15 m) Canadarm used to grapple and maneuver payloads to orbit. STS-3 landed at Northrup Strip, White Sands, New Mexico
C._Gordon_Fullerton
Astronomical observatory
all the way north to the Trinity test site. The overlook can also be used for viewing rocket launches from White Sands Missile Range. DST at night SDSS
Sunspot_Solar_Observatory
originated at Edwards Air Force Base in California or on one occasion White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico following missions which landed there, especially
List of Shuttle Carrier Aircraft flights
List_of_Shuttle_Carrier_Aircraft_flights
Shell which protects a spacecraft during atmospheric reentry
to initially lift the aeroshell. The balloon then drifted west to the White Sands Missile Range, where the vehicle was dropped and the engines beneath
Aeroshell
American aerospace engineer
conducted experimental lightcraft launches at the White Sands Missile Range High Energy Laser System Test Facility (HELSTF). He collaborated on hypersonic aerodynamics
Leik_Myrabo
Disestablished United States naval laboratory at White Oak, Maryland
The Naval Ordnance Laboratory (NOL) was a facility in the White Oak area of Montgomery County, Maryland. The location is now used as the headquarters
Naval_Ordnance_Laboratory
Aerospace measurement program of NASA
White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, the Poker Flat Research Range in Alaska, Kwajalein, Marshall Islands, Pacific Missile Range Facility in Barking
NASA_Sounding_Rocket_Program
US Air Force base in California
the facility was renamed Muroc Army Airfield and then Muroc Air Force Base before its final renaming in 1950 for World War II USAAF veteran and test pilot
Edwards_Air_Force_Base
First crewed launch of the Boeing Starliner
returned uncrewed on September 7, 2024, and successfully landed at the White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico, although it experienced a thruster failure
Boeing_Crew_Flight_Test
American sounding rocket
I-Hawk missile). The sounding rocket is launched from Wallops Flight Facility, White Sands, Poker Flat Rocket Range, Andoya Rocket Range, Esrange and Barreira
Orion_(rocket)
Defunct research facility of the United States Army
Defense Technical Information Center. "WSMR Ends 28 Years of Missile Testing". White Sands Missile Ranger. 6 July 1973. Makamson, Collin (8 January 2021).
Signal_Corps_Laboratories
Spaceport located in New Mexico, U.S.
SpinLaunch, HyperSciences, EXOS Aerospace, TMD Defense and Space and White Sands Research and Developers are current tenants. In order to repay the construction
Spaceport_America
NASA research facility in Alabama
and improving the V-2 missile for U.S. applications. Testing was conducted at nearby White Sands Proving Grounds, New Mexico. von Braun was allowed to
Marshall_Space_Flight_Center
United States Army post since 1941
moving on to a series of ever larger designs. Many of their tests were carried out at White Sands Missile Range and flights between the two locations were
Redstone_Arsenal
Outdoor museum of rocketry
National Museum of Nuclear Science & History, Albuquerque, New Mexico White Sands Missile Range, near Las Cruces, New Mexico 1964 New York World's Fairgrounds
Rocket_garden
Puerto Rican scientist
the Wallops Flight Facility (WFF) which is part of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) where she is responsible for the testing of ground and flight
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Topics referred to by the same term
Operation Backfire tests White Sands Proving Ground, the western United States post-war test facility Kapustin Yar, the post-war USSR test facility Cape Canaveral
V-2_rocket_facilities
Defunct research facility of the United States Army
organization known as the Office of Missile Electronic Warfare (OMEW). Based in White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, OMEW was responsible for conducting research
Vulnerability Assessment Laboratory
Vulnerability_Assessment_Laboratory
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