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Lockheed Martin Missiles and Space Systems in Sunnyvale, adjacent to Moffett Field, is one of the most important satellite development and manufacturing plants in the United States. It covers 412 acres and employs 6,500 people. Over 850 orbited satellites have been...
A major military and aerospace site, Vandenberg is the United States' only West Coast space launch complex, and one of only two major space launch facilities in the country (the other is at Cape Canaveral, FL). This remote Central California base covers 98,400 acres,...
UMore Park is a mysterious multilayered R&Dscape of ruins and gated areas. This 12,000-acre area surrounded by farmland south of the Twin Cities has had a variety of uses since 1941, many of which have left interesting vestiges. In WW2 it was hurriedly built as...
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center develops satellites and related technologies, and designs and coordinates space missions. It includes two sites: the 1,121-acre main facility at Greenbelt, MD, and the 6,188-acre Wallops Flight Center at Wallops Island. Over 10,000...
A remarkable collection of five or so observatories at 10,000 feet on this mountain. The LURE facility, for example, bounced lasers off reflectors left on the moon, to measure tectonic movement on earth. Another, an Air Force observatory, is part of the USAF Ground-...
Kirtland Air Force Base is one of the most vital and active military facilities in the country, with over 20,000 people working within its secured perimeter, at the south end of Albuquerque. The heavily built up part of the base, generally north and east of the runways...
Moffett Field was a military base established in the 1930's, when blimps served an important role as surveillance platforms (later technologies, such as radar, high altitude aircraft, and satellites, made them obsolete). Before the Navy left Moffett Field in 1994, it...
This is a densely developed 41-acre compound near the Los Angeles International Airport, containing 23 office and industrial buildings belonging to the Aerospace Corporation, a nonprofit corporation that provides technical support for military satellite programs. The...
Work at the JPL is primarily related to designing and building satellites and space probes, and communicating with them once they are deployed. Most of the programs are conducted for NASA, such as the several Mars missions, and other planetary orbiter missions. The...
Also known as the Santa Susana Field Test Facility, this is a major rocket and propulsion R...
Goldstone is the largest tracking station in the Deep Space Network, which is composed of three installations located at roughly 120-degree intervals around the globe (with one at Madrid, Spain, and another at Canberra, Australia) for a continuous view of space. Part...
A flight and rocket test complex, associated with NASA's Goddard Center, located on three separate sites on the Virginia coast, and totaling 6,200 acres. Most of the facilities are at the Main Base, including a research airport with two runways, aircraft hangars,...
A complex of assembly buildings and rocket launch sites, established in the 1960's for the Apollo program, and now the launch site for NASA space missions. Located on around 100 square miles at the north end of Merritt Island, adjacent to the Cape Canaveral Air Force...
Lincoln Lab is a large electromagnetic communications R...
Millstone Hill became an important site in the development of electromagnetic communication in 1957, when a just completed dish built on the site became the first American antenna to track the world's first satellite - the short-lived Soviet Sputnik 1. Antennas at...
The main site for Lockheed Martin's Astronautics division is a 5,400-acre industrial site, with numerous production, test, and space simulation facilities, and over 70 laboratories. The Astronautics division designs and manufactures space launch vehicles, such as Titan...
This aviation and space museum has several unusual exhibits, and is suitably located in the heart of a major aerospace center. Located on Boeing Field and surrounded by Boeing R...
The legendary Canadian weapons engineer Gerald Bull operated a test site that straddled the international border, near Jay, Vermont. First known as Highwater Station (the name coming from the closest town on the Canadian side) the location was created on land Bull...
An observatory with a number of telescopes, used primarily for solar research. NASA has built a three-meter mirror telescope using a mirror composed of liquid mercury, continuously rotated to form a nearly flawless reflector. This instrument is used to track space...
The base consists almost exclusively of the Arnold Engineering Development Center, the largest flight simulation test facility in the world. Over 50 wind tunnels and test cells are used for testing aircraft, missiles, rockets, engines, and satellites. Employs 3,500...