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Type: Suborbital Launch Site. Country: Canada. Latitude: 70.17000 deg. Longitude: -124.71700 deg.

Sounding rocket launch location known to have been used for 18 launches from 1969 to 1982, reaching up to 662 kilometers altitude.

General / Launch Complex Unknown Chronology

1969 March 7 - 13:12 GMT - Launch Vehicle: Tomahawk Sandia. Nike Tomahawk NASA 18.83GE Magnetospheric mission Agency: NASA. Apogee: 270 km (160 mi).

1969 March 8 - 03:18 GMT - Launch Vehicle: Tomahawk Sandia. Nike Tomahawk NASA 18.84GE Magnetospheric mission Agency: NASA. Apogee: 270 km (160 mi).

1969 March 9 - 03:29 GMT - Launch Vehicle: Tomahawk Sandia. Nike Tomahawk NASA 18.85GE Magnetospheric mission Agency: NASA. Apogee: 270 km (160 mi).

1971 March 15 - Launch Vehicle: Tomahawk Sandia. Nike Tomahawk NASA 18.122GE Plasma mission Agency: NASA. Apogee: 270 km (160 mi).

1974 December 6 - 23:32 GMT - Launch Vehicle: Black Brant. LV Model: Black Brant 5B . Black Brant VB AMF-VB-41 Cusp Auroral mission Agency: NRCC. Apogee: 245 km (152 mi).

1974 December 11 - 22:48 GMT - Launch Vehicle: Black Brant. LV Model: Black Brant 4B . Black Brant IVB AAF-4B-32 Aurora / ionosphere mission Aurora / ionosphere mission Agency: NRCC. Apogee: 600 km (370 mi).

1975 January 6 - 23:56 GMT - Launch Vehicle: Black Brant. LV Model: Black Brant 4B . Black Brant IVB Tordo I Periquito Plasma / barium release mission Agency: Sandia. Apogee: 540 km (330 mi).

1975 January 11 - 00:32 GMT - Launch Vehicle: Black Brant. LV Model: Black Brant 4B . Black Brant IVB Tordo II Periquito Plasma / barium release mission Agency: Sandia. Apogee: 540 km (330 mi).

1975 November 25 - 23:39 GMT - Launch Vehicle: Black Brant. LV Model: Black Brant 4B . Black Brant IVB AEC-IVA-03 Periquito Plasma / barium release mission Agency: NRCC/Sandia. Apogee: 500 km (310 mi).

1975 November 28 - 23:39 GMT - Launch Vehicle: Black Brant. LV Model: Black Brant 4B . Black Brant IVB AEC-IVA-04 Periquito Plasma / barium release mission Agency: NRCC/Sandia. Apogee: 500 km (310 mi).

1977 December 6 - 00:05 GMT - Launch Vehicle: Black Brant. Black Brant 8B AAF-NVB-03 Dayside Cusp Ionosphere mission Agency: NRCC. Apogee: 300 km (180 mi).

1977 December 12 - 23:00 GMT - Launch Vehicle: Black Brant. Black Brant 8B AAF-NVB-04 FAILURE: Failure. Dayside Cusp Aurora / ionosphere / fields mission Agency: NRCC. Apogee: 10 km (6 mi).

1981 December 1 - 01:38 GMT - Launch Vehicle: Black Brant. LV Model: Black Brant 10 . Black Brant X NASA 35.001UE CENTAUR Auroral mission Agency: NASA. Apogee: 612 km (380 mi).

1981 December 6 - 23:14 GMT - Launch Vehicle: Black Brant. LV Model: Black Brant 4B . Black Brant IVB AAF-4B-38 CENTAUR Auroral mission Agency: NRCC. Apogee: 615 km (382 mi).

1981 December 7 - 00:00 GMT - Launch Vehicle: Terrier. Terrier Malemute NASA 29.17CE CENTAUR Plasma mission Agency: NASA. Apogee: 451 km (280 mi).

1981 December 13 - 21:31 GMT - Launch Vehicle: Black Brant. LV Model: Black Brant 4B . Black Brant IVB AAF-4B-39 FAILURE: Failure. CENTAUR Auroral mission Agency: NRCC. Apogee: 50 km (31 mi).

1981 December 13 - 22:54 GMT - Launch Vehicle: Black Brant. LV Model: Black Brant 10 . Black Brant X NASA 35.002UE CENTAUR Plasma mission Agency: NASA. Apogee: 662 km (411 mi).

1982 January 21 - 01:31 GMT - Launch Vehicle: Terrier. Terrier Malemute NASA 29.18UE Plasma mission Agency: NASA. Apogee: 633 km (393 mi).

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