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  2. Oracle (rocket) - Wikipedia

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    Oracle is the name of a model rocket with built-in digital camera, manufactured by Estes Industries, for aerial photography. In contrast to the camera rocket Astrocam, the Oracle allows the making of a complete film of a rocket flight. The Oracle is best flown with a D12 engine (see Estes number coding), but can be flown with C11 engines.

  3. Missile launch control center - Wikipedia

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    This was an upgrade from the ILCS (Improved Launch Control System) capsules at the 341 MW that date to the late 1970s, and from the CDB capsules at the 90th and 91st missile wings. This was a major upgrade. The two launch control officers now sit side by side and must turn four launch keys to initiate a launch.

  4. Eastern Range - Wikipedia

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    The range starts at the launch pads at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and John F. Kennedy Space Center and extends eastward over the Atlantic Ocean to 90° East longitude [17]: 10 in the Indian Ocean, where it meets the Western Range. [1]: 5 [17]: 10 The range consists of a chain of shore and sea-based tracking sites.

  5. Missile combat crew - Wikipedia

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    The missile launch control environment also varied by system. Early missiles such as Thor and Atlas, relied on support facilities above ground, with crews protected in a shelter of some sort. Later systems were buried underground, either with the missiles located nearby (i.e. Titan) or a distance away (Peacekeeper, Minuteman).

  6. Estes Industries - Wikipedia

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    Estes Industries was founded by Vernon Estes in 1958; in 1961, the company moved to a 77-acre tract of land on the outskirts of Penrose, Colorado. [10] [1] In 1969, Vernon sold the company to the Damon Corporation of Needham, Massachusetts, a company which also purchased a number of other hobby companies including a smaller competitor of Estes, Centuri Engineering of Phoenix, Arizona.

  7. Howell M. Estes III - Wikipedia

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    Howell Estes celebrating Air Force 70th anniversary in 2017. Estes was born on December 16, 1941. [2] He graduated from the United States Air Force Academy in 1965. He has commanded both operational and maintenance squadrons, the Air Force's only stealth fighter unit, and an air division and numbered air force.

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  9. Launch control - Wikipedia

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    The term launch control can refer to: Launch control (automotive), an automotive control option; A spaceport, a rocket launch site; A missile launch control center, used to launch US ICBMs; Launch control (rocketry), generic term for a control center used to launch rockets and missiles; There are also specific facilities that use the name ...