Category:White Sands Missile Range

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English: White Sands Missile Range (WSMR), formerly the White Sands Proving Grounds — a United States Army research facility−rocket range in Doña Ana County and Otero County, south-central New Mexico.

White Sands Missile Range,
central Tularosa Basin section,
Doña Ana County New Mexico.

It is located primarily within the Tularosa Basin and into the northern Jornada del Muerto, accessed from U.S. 70 near White Sands, between Alamogordo and Las Cruces.
WSMR covers 3,200 mi² (8 287 km²), 3 times the size of Rhode Island, making it the largest military installation within the United States.

See also category: White Sands National Monument.

White Sands Missile Range

military testing area in New Mexico, United States

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Instance of

spaceport,
bombing range

Location

Commissioned by

Ordnance Corps

Operator

United States Army

Inception

1948

Area

3,200 mi²

official website

32° 33′ 47.16″ N, 106° 34′ 12″ W

Authority control
Q1694811 Library of Congress authority ID: n82028923

Subcategories

This category has the following 19 subcategories, out of 19 total.

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► Pad Abort Test-1‎ (4 F)
► A-002‎ (5 F)
► A-004‎ (1 F)
► Pad Abort Test-2 (Apollo)‎ (1 F)

B

► Boeing Pad Abort Test‎ (5 F)

C

► Commandants of the White Sands Missile Range‎ (1 C, 29 F)

G

► Green River Launch Complex‎ (1 F)

H

► High Resolution Coronal Imager‎ (5 F)

J

► John G. Shinkle‎ (2 F)

L

► Landing of STS-3‎ (1 F)
► Launch Complex 33‎ (9 F)

M

► McDonald-Schmidt Ranch House‎ (1 C, 12 F)

P

► Pad Abort-1‎ (12 F)

S

► Space Surveillance Telescope‎ (3 F)

T

► Trinity test‎ (3 C, 2 P, 108 F)
► Trinity test site‎ (2 C, 30 F)

V

► Victorio Peak‎ (6 F)

W

► White Sands Missile Range Museum‎ (1 P, 140 F)
► White Sands Missile Range solar furnace‎ (39 F)

Media in category "White Sands Missile Range"

The following 167 files are in this category, out of 167 total.

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Army staff sergeant and 3 troops employing a TOW missile at WSMR.jpg 720 × 576; 63 KB
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CNO Adm. John Richardson reviews new technologies in directed-energy weaponry at WSMR.jpg 1,280 × 854; 426 KB
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