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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 established in 1941 as the Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range, where the Trinity test site lay at the northern end of the Range, in Socorro County near the towns of Carrizozo and San Antonio.
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 park covers 145,762 acres (227.8 sq mi; 589.9 km 2) in the Tularosa Basin, including the southern 41% of a 275 sq mi (710 km 2) field of white sand dunes composed of gypsum crystals.
In February 1957, the prototype Nike Hercules installation was completed at White Sands Launch Complex 37, and a satisfactory flight test was conducted on March 13 (92 Hercules firings through November 13, 1957 [2]--Operation Understanding civilian tours were conducted in 1967.) [3] The 1956 [4] Nike II anti-ballistic missile study for an advance Project Nike evolved into the development ...
The White Sands V-2 Launching Site, also known as Launch Complex 33 and originally as Army 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 performed test launches of German V-2 rockets captured toward the end of World War II. These tests ...
White Sands Test Facility (WSTF) is a NASA rocket engine test facility and a resource for testing and evaluating potentially hazardous materials, space flight components, and rocket propulsion systems. NASA established WSTF on the White Sands Missile Range in 1963. [1]
Its address is at Bldg. 501 Aberdeen Ave. in White Sands. For more information or to make a reservation, call 575-288-3220. To contact White Sands Missile Range's post security office for possible ...
Talos missile launch at White Sands. White Sands Missile Range Museum MK5 display. Desert Ship was originally used to test the Talos missile. Subsequent uses have included testing the Standard Missile, [4] Aegis Weapons System, [5] and, in mid-2008, the Standard Missile 6.
An early version of an Army Tactical Missile System is tested December 14, 2021, at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. (John Hamilton/US Army/File)