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Aerial view. Omelek Island (/ ˈ oʊ m əl ɛ k /; Marshallese: Kom̧le, pronounced [kʷomˠ(ɤ)lʲe]) [1] is part of the Kwajalein Atoll in the Republic of the Marshall Islands.It is controlled by the United States military under a long-term lease (along with ten other islands in the atoll) and is part of the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site.
SpaceX proceeded to then [when?] build a launch facility in the northern Pacific Ocean at the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site, on Omelek Island, a part of the Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands. SpaceX began launching Falcon 1 rockets from Omelek in 2006. Falcon 1 Flight 4 was the first successful privately funded, liquid ...
Map from National Atlas of the United States. Kwajalein is the 14th largest coral atoll as measured by area of enclosed water. Comprising 97 islands and islets, it has a land area of 16.4 km 2 (6.3 sq mi) and surrounds one of the largest lagoons in the world, with an area of 2,174 km 2 (839 sq mi).
Marshall Islands: Reagan Test Site, Omelek Island, Kwajalein Atoll: 1950s– 39,000 kg Orbital US-controlled ICBM base converted for satellites. SpaceX Falcon 1. Close to the equator. New Zealand: Birdling's Flat
SpaceX did it again. After launching a telecommunications satellite into space at 1:26 a.m. ET on Sunday, August 14, the company landed the second stage of its Falcon 9 rocket on a drone ship at sea.
Launch activities at the test site include ballistic missile tests (Gagan Island, ; Gellinam Island, ABM interception tests (Meck Island), and meteorological The Kwajalein Atoll used to host a commercial spaceport for SpaceX at Omelek Island ( 9°2′52.30″N 167°44′34.80″E / 9.0478611°N 167.7430000°E / 9.0478611; 167. ...
It was the first time SpaceX aimed for a splashdown near the Dry Tortugas, a cluster of islands 70 miles (113 kilometers) west of Key West. ... west of Key West. To celebrate the new location ...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket rose into the night sky for an on-time liftoff of 8:32 p.m. from Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 40 on May 17, 2024. The rocket launch is seen from the Vero Beach High ...