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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.
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] April 1957 – Aerobee-Hi set a single stage altitude record of 190 miles. [1]
HIBEX test launch at White Sands. Hardpoint was a proposed short-range anti-ballistic missile (ABM) system conceived by ARPA and developed by the US Army under ARPA's Project Defender program. Hardpoint was designed to exploit the relatively low accuracy of Soviet ICBMs, which would make destroying US missile silos difficult. The idea was to ...
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 ...
The Utah Launch Complex was a Cold War military subinstallation of White Sands Missile Range for USAF and US Army rocket launches. In addition to firing Pershing missiles , the complex launched Athena RTV missiles with subscale (test) warheads of the Advanced Ballistic Re-entry System to reentry speeds and impact at the New Mexico range.
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 ...
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 ...
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