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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.
August 1952 – First Talos missile launch at WSPG. [1] May 1953 – Base name formally changed from White Sands Proving Ground to White Sands Missile Range (WSMR). [8] June 1953 – Construction completed for USS Desert Ship blockhouse. [1] May 1954 – Viking 11 set a single-stage altitude record of 158 miles. [1]
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 ...
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 ...
White Sands Missile Range Home to U.S. Army's Largest Solar Power System Solar Energy to Provide 10% of Installation Power Needs WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE, N.M.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Today the U.S ...
Meet the man who will lead the installation for the next two years, and hear from the brigadier general who commanded for the last two.
The Information Management Directorate manages and operates the information and communications resources at White Sands Missile Range. They are responsible for processing raw mission data that has been collected, providing distributed test network support, overseeing off-Range safari of instrumentation, and providing imaging and media ...
Oct. 2—The New Mexico Environment Department has fined the White Sands Missile Range hundreds of thousands of dollars after finding a fire suppression system at a hazardous waste storage ...