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Midway
Midway Island is approximately half way between North America and Asia. The uninhabited place was seized as an American possession in 1903 to provide a base for the first transpacific cable. It was later developed into a naval air station and figured importantly in early military and commercial aviation as a refuelling point for transpacific flights. It consists of two major atolls, Sand Island and Eastern Island, both of them almost entirely taken up by airfields.
Longitude: -177.38 deg. Latitude: 28.20 deg.
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| Midway Island NDZ Air-launched rocket drop zone north of Midway, 1500 km from Shemya. |
Family:
Suborbital Launch Site.
Country:
USA.
Launch Vehicles:
SRALT,
LRALT.
Launch Sites:
Midway Island NDZ,
Midway Island SDZ.
2004 May 3 - .
04:06 GMT - .
Launch Site:
Midway.
Launch Complex:
Midway Island SDZ.
Launch Pad: 25.0 N x 178.0 W.
Launch Platform: C-17.
LV Family:
Minuteman.
Launch Vehicle:
LRALT.
- LRALT Demo test - .
Nation: USA.
Agency: US Army.
Apogee: 300 km (180 mi). Air-launched from a C-17. The LRALT missile boosted a simulated reentry vehicle from a point just south of Midway Island to the vicinity of Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands..
2005 September 26 - .
Launch Site:
Midway.
Launch Complex:
Midway Island NDZ.
Launch Pad: 42.0 N x 176.0 W.
Launch Platform: C-17.
LV Family:
Minuteman.
Launch Vehicle:
LRALT.
- Cobra Dane Test - .
Nation: USA.
Agency: USA MDA.
Apogee: 300 km (180 mi). Air-launched from a C-17. Missile Defense Radar Technology target..
2009 December 11 - .
Launch Site:
Midway.
Launch Complex:
Midway Island NDZ.
Launch Platform: C-17.
LV Family:
Minuteman.
Launch Vehicle:
SRALT.
- Target - .
Nation: USA.
Agency: MDA.
Type: ABM Target. Apogee: 10 km (6 mi).
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