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The fort is about a 10-minute drive from Seven Presidents Oceanfront Park and from Long Branch Beach on the Jersey Shore.The post covered nearly 1,126 acres (4.56 km 2) of land, from the Shrewsbury River on the east, to Route 35 on the west; this area was referred to as 'Main Post.'
The electronics for the satellite were developed at Fort Monmouth. 1960: The first televised weather satellite, Tiros-1, was developed under the technical supervision of the Fort Monmouth Laboratories. Tiros-1 sent the first televised weather photographs of the Earth's cloud cover and weather patterns to the giant 60-foot "Space Sentry" antenna ...
The Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) C5ISR Center, [2] formerly the Communications-Electronics RD&E Center (CERDEC), is the United States Army information technologies and integrated systems center.
A map of Fort Monmouth in 1941. In light of the ongoing war in Europe, military interest in the United States reached a feverish level as many anticipated the nation’s entry into the second World War. From 1940 to 1941, the Signal Corps established three field laboratories near Fort Monmouth to supplement the expanding research efforts of SCL.
Camp Evans Historic District is an area of the Camp Evans Formerly Used Defense Site in Wall Township, New Jersey.The site of the military installation is noted for a 1941 transatlantic radio receiver and various World War II/Cold War laboratories of the United States Army (e.g., signal, vacuum tube, dosimetry, & photo-optics
The 513th MI Group performed its mission of intelligence collection and counterespionage in support of United States Army Europe until its inactivation in 1969. The Group reactivated at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey in 1982, spinning off the 201st and 203rd MI Battalions, and assuming its current mission of providing intelligence support to United States Third Army (ARCENT) and United States ...
Monmouth County Sheriff Shaun Golden released a heatmap of reported drone sightings covering a chunk of the central Jersey county's nearly 700 square miles.
Project Diana marked the birth of radar astronomy later used to map Venus and other nearby planets, and was a necessary precursor to the US space program. It was the first demonstration that terrestrial radio signals could penetrate the ionosphere , [ 1 ] opening the possibility of radio communications beyond the Earth for space probes and ...