Air Force Link - Fact Sheet : AIM-120 AMRAAM tests at Eglin AFB, Fla.; White Sands Missile Range, NM; and Point Mugu, Calif . Air Combat Command,Public Affairs Office; 115 Thompson St., Ste. http://www.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?fsID=79
The Revolution In Military Affairs And Directed Energy Weapons The current THEL mounted at White Sands Missile Range is 80 x 80 on a US Air Force Research Laboratory, July 6, 2000, Office of Public Affairs, http://www.iwar.org.uk/rma/resources/energy-weapons/mowthorpe02.html
Extractions: and Directed Energy Weapons by Matthew Mowthorpe A Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA) occurs when a nation's military seizes an opportunity to transform its strategy, military doctrine, training, education, organization, equipment, operations, and tactics to achieve decisive military results in fundamentally new ways. Directed energy weapons (DEW) are a technology area that has been neglected in this RMA. The technologies associated with DEWs have been maturing, while political support and new expenditures from Congress are making deployment of DEW systems in the near future a realistic possibility. The use of DEWs on the modern battlefield would contribute to the current RMA. DEWs will be able to provide defense against short-range artillery shells and theater/intercontinental missiles, as well as anti-satellite capabilities that will contribute to a space control strategy. This article examines advances in DEW technology and the new military missions and roles that will be enabled by these new weapon systems. Space Based Lasers for Ballistic Missile Defense
Bataan Memorial Death March - Race Details Address, Public Affairs Office, Building 1782 White Sands Missile Range, NM 88002.Phone Number, (505) 6781134. Fax Number http://www.marathonguide.com/races/racedetails.cfm?MIDD=1604030330
Launch Complex 33 - Html Version Public Affairs Office White Sands Missile Range, NM 880025047 Voice (505)678-1134 Fax (505) 678-7174 e-mail stews-pao@wsmr.army.mil http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/e-resources/ebooks/records/7186.html
Extractions: In October 1985 the National Park Service notified the Department of the Army that Launch Complex 33 (LC-33), located 6 1/2 miles east of post headquarters, at White Sands Missile Range was now a National Historical Land mark. Two years earlier on Feb. 16, 1983 the complex was named a State of New Mexico historical monument. The designation was based on the fact the launch complex was this country's first major rocket launch facility. Work conducted at LC-33 started a chain of events on the United States that led to orbiting satellites, manned space flight, trips to the moon and the space shuttle. The complex consisted of a blockhouse, several concrete launching pads, a 100-foot launching tower for small rockets, gantry and blast pit. [IMAGE]
Las Cruces Sun-News BRAC Series What might Las Cruces be like today if White Sands Missile Range had never existed? who has worked at the White Sands Public Affairs Office since 1980. http://www.lcsun-news.com/artman/publish/cat_index_24.shtml
Extractions: Pvt. Dallin Goodrich, left, guides a Patriot Missile container onto a launch vehicle during training at Fort Bliss. Officials hope the post will be spared cuts and perhaps add units from elsewhere. Photo for the Sun-News by Rudy Gutierrez/El Paso Times El Paso leaders boast that Fort Bliss home to the U.S. Armys Air Defense Artillery has room to expand as the military considers what posts to close or grow in the upcoming Base Realignment and Closure process. It would not be appropriate to say we want to target one military installation, said Bob Cook, chief executive of the Greater El Paso Chamber of Commerce. Our message is to simply accentuate Fort Bliss assets. We know that the No. 1 criteria the Base Realignment and Closure commission is looking at is military value.
USMC Ray Gun (3) In fact, recently (2/212/01), the Public Affairs Office of the Airborne Air Force Base, White Sands Missile Range, 30 October 3 November 2000. g. http://www.raven1.net/raygun.htm
Supplementary Material To Rockets Of The World Gabe Brillante, chief information Officer at White Sands Missile Range, Public Affairs Officer, Office of Advanced Research and Technology, http://members.aol.com/petealway/smtrotw.htm
Extractions: Bumbling Brothers Flying Circus, NAR Team 011 (Robert Alway and Peter Alway Summary With the publication of Scale Model Rocketry in 1990, I embarked on a project of compiling dimensioned drawings, color data, and historical information on hundreds of rockets for use by sport rocketry and static model hobbyists. I've already entered Rockets of the World and at previous NARAM's. Since these books, I've expanded the material available to modelers with four publications available through Saturn Press: Rockets of the World 1999 Supplement, Rockets of the World 2000 Supplement, Rockets of the World 2001 Supplement, and In the Shadow of the V-2. I submit this significant new work as our Research and Development entry. I present modeling data on 48 rocket vehicles here, along with a summary of the efforts that went into their publication and the results of their publication. Introduction In the 1980's, It was hard for the average modeler to find scale datadimensioned drawings, photographs, and color information on rockets suitable as subjects in NAR
News Flash Of The Week The Public Affairs Office at White Sands Missile Range has recently added 80historic photos of the Trinity Site and related topics during World War II to http://members.aol.com/JTankard/trinity/flash.html
Extractions: The Public Affairs Office at White Sands Missile Range has recently added 80 historic photos of the Trinity Site and related topics during World War II to its web site . Some shots show daily life at the Trinity installation before the test, including men playing polo with brooms and a volley ball rather than the standard polo mallet and ball. Also included are eight photos of the Trinity explosion.
Phillips Press Release #95-51 White Sands Missile Range, NM The DCX successfully pitched its nose 10 degreesbelow the horizon at 8200 Phillips Laboratory Public Affairs Office http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/x-33/phillips-95-51.htm
Extractions: WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE, N.M. The DC-X successfully pitched its nose 10 degrees below the horizon at 8,200 feet, rotated 180 degrees and traveled 2,100 feet down range. The experimental single-stage-to-orbit rocket continued to push the limits during its eighth flight test today at 7:02 a.m. MDT at the Army's White Sands Missile Range. The McDonnell Douglas vehicle is managed by the Air Force Phillips Laboratory in support of the NASA reusable launch vehicle program. Flight test support is provided by the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center's Space and Missile Test and Evaluation Directorate. At the conclusion of the flight, the DC-X was officially turned over to NASA. Lt. Col. Jess Sponable presented a plaque attesting to the turnover to NASA Program Manager Dan Dumbacher. McDonnell Douglas will integrate key advanced technology components into the vehicle under a contract with NASA. The upgraded vehicle will be called the DC-XA. In early 1996, the DC-XA will return to White Sands Missile Range for static hot fire and flight tests that could began as early as mid-1996. Phillips Laboratory will act as NASA's Deputy for Flight Test and Operations, managing the final DC-XA flight tests.
Phillips Press Release #95-52 White Sands Missile Range, NM, July 7, 1995 The Delta Clipper Experimentallaunch vehicle s (DCX) Phillips Laboratory Public Affairs Office http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/x-33/phillips-95-52.htm
Extractions: WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE, N.M., July 7, 1995 The Delta Clipper Experimental launch vehicle's (DC-X) successful completion of an aggressive series of flight tests this week builds on it's successes by beginning the next phase of a program in which it will receive advanced technology components. Light weight, high strength materials will be used in DC-XA's new liquid oxygen tank fabricated from aluminum lithium and liquid hydrogen tank constructed from graphite composite. These components will be integrated into the McDonnell Douglas-built reusable rocket and Huntington Beach, Calif. In 1996, the DC-X will be returned to White Sands Missile Range in January as the DC-XA, and a new series of flight tests will resume in April under a series of agreements awarded by NASA. The tests will continue to demonstrate the feasibility of a reusable rocket which has aircraft-like operability and maintainability. The Delta Clipper has demonstrated fast turnaround by being readied for flight in seven days. In addition, the reusable launch vehicle's engines were test fired twice within eight hours.
Ulysses - News - Press Releases WFF and WSMR will host a media day at White Sands Missile Range from noon to 4pm MST, call the White Sands Public Affairs Office (PAO) at 505/6781134. http://ulysses.jpl.nasa.gov/news/hale_bopp.html
Extractions: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 17, 1997 NASA PLANS COMET HALE-BOPP OBSERVING CAMPAIGN, ACTIVITIES As the orbit of Comet Hale-Bopp (C/1995 O1) brings it closer to the Sun in late March, NASA and agency-supported scientists will study the large and bright comet using sounding rockets, spacecraft and ground-based observations. Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, Hale-Bopp's nucleus was measured at roughly three to four times larger than that of comet Halley (six miles in diameter), making it one of the largest comets ever observed. Researchers are studying Hale-Bopp to better understand comets, primitive bodies of loosely-packed ice and dust that many scientists consider the best-preserved remnants of the early solar system.
Public Affairs News Releases/Media Advisories US Army Program Executive Office Air and Missile Defense Public Affairs Office personnel from the White Sands Missile Range, NM, Patriot test facility. http://www.redstone.army.mil/pub_affairs/archive/2002/05May2002/news/05131021308
Public Affairs News Releases/Media Advisories US Army Program Executive Office Air and Missile Defense Public Affairs Office Advanced Capability3 (PAC-3) system at White Sands Missile Range, NM, http://www.redstone.army.mil/pub_affairs/archive/2002/04Apr2002/news/04251021323
RDECOM Magazine | People Army Research Laboratory Public Affairs Office. 1 blue pixel Sgt. Juan C.Ortiz, White Sands Missile Range, was selected the NCO of the Year. http://www.rdecom.army.mil/rdemagazine/200406/people.html
Extractions: home RDECOMËs talented scientists, researchers and engineers are among the top in their field. The "people" section includes news and feature articles about the commandËs diverse staff, including profiles, awards and other accomplishments. PICATINNY ARSENAL, N.J. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has honored Paul E. Chiodo, director, Quality Engineering and System Assurance, with its group achievement award. Picatinny Technical Director Michael P. Devine recently presented the award to the Wharton, N.J. resident on behalf of NASA Administrator Sean OËKeefe. Chiodo served on the independent government assessment team chartered by NASA that assessed the agencyËs Quality Assurance Programs for two of the five Space Shuttle Program elements, the Orbiter and External Tank programs. Team co-chairs Vernon W. Wessel and David Collins called ChiodoËs participation an important step in returning our country to human space flight.÷ The teamËs report, which was published in January, found that the Quality Program that exists today was good based on previous ground rules when the program was formulated. However the report recommended that NASA reassess the Quality Program based on new ground rules, and institutes a program that fulfills those new requirements.
RDECOM Magazine US Aberdeen Proving Ground Public Affairs Office News. 1 blue pixel Sgt.Juan C. Ortiz, White Sands Missile Range, was selected the NCO of the Year. http://www.rdecom.army.mil/rdemagazine/200406/
Extractions: The Army online publication is an authorized publication for members of the Department of Defense. Contents of the RDECOM Magazine are not necessarily the official views of, or endorsed by, the U.S. Government, or the Department of the Army. The editorial content of this publication is the responsibility of the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command PA Officer.
Fort Drum Blizzard Online scientists and Soldiers at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico to defeatIEDs, which are the Public Affairs Office Attn Fort Drum Blizzard http://www.drum.army.mil/sites/news/blizzard/blizzard_online/hnews.asp?id=2
Dawn Of The Atomic Age: The Trinity Site | Away.com Satellites dot the barren landscape at White Sands Missile Range. You cancontact the Range s Public Affairs Office at (505) 6781134. http://away.com/primedia/military/trinity_site.html
Extractions: Satellites dot the barren landscape at White Sands Missile Range. There aren't many places where you can stand on a spot where the world changed, fundamentally, in an instant. But you can do it at this isolated location in the New Mexico desert, where the scientists and engineers of the Manhattan Project detonated the world's first atomic bomb. The men who developed and built the bomb at laboratories in Los Alamos, New Mexico, called it the "gadget." It was a plutonium bomb, its explosive force created when precisely timed detonations of TNT fused plutonium in the device's core, creating an atomic chain reaction and releasing enormous amounts of energy. Under the direction of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, the Los Alamos team finished their gadget by July 1945. Project leaders decided to conduct the first test at a site on the Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range some 200 miles to the south. At 5:29 in the morning of July 16 they detonated the bomb, which was so powerful it broke windows 120 miles away. "I am become death, the destroyer of worlds," said Oppenheimer, quoting from a Hindu text. Atomic bombs dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki helped bring World War II to an end, but, in the decades since, the world has been haunted by the specter of nuclear war.
DefenseLINK News: THAAD TENTH FLIGHT TEST LAUNCH ABORTED or THAAD, flight test at the White Sands Missile Range, NM, was aborted at 714 and Missile Command Public Affairs Office at (256) 9559174 or Maj. http://www.dod.mil/releases/1999/b05251999_bt262-99.html
Extractions: No. 262-99 (703) 695-0192 (media) IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 25, 1999 (703) 697-5737 (public/industry) The Ballistic Missile Defense Organization and the U.S. Army scheduled Theater High Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, flight test at the White Sands Missile Range, N.M. was aborted at 7:14 a.m. (EDT) when the Hera target missile malfunctioned. Today's test was to have been the tenth in a series of 13 flight tests currently planned in the Program Definition and Risk Reduction phase of the THAAD system. No date for rescheduling this test has been established. The satellite downlink scheduled for 2:00 p.m. (EDT) today will not take place. Additionally, the press conference scheduled for 3:30 p.m. (EDT) in the Pentagon Briefing Room, 2E781 is also cancelled. For more information on the Hera target, contact Gerta Sherril with the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command Public Affairs Office at (256) 955-3888. For information on THAAD, contact Bob Hunt with the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command Public Affairs Office at (256) 955-9174 or Maj. Co Woods with the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization External Affairs Office at (703) 695-8743, ext. 6128.
