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San Nicolas
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 | San Nicolas
Credit - © Mark Wade
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Type: Suborbital Launch Site. Operator: USA. Country: USA. Latitude: 33°15' N. Longitude: 119°30' W. Military facility on the California Channel Islands, used for rocket launches in support of other missile tests from Vandenberg or Point Mugu. In use from 1960 to 1973.
San Nicolas Chronology and Launch Log
- 1957 July 2 - NRL NN7.37F Solar Ultraviolet/X-ray mission Launch Vehicle: Nike-Deacon. Nike Deacon NN7.37F Apogee: 93 km (57 mi).
- 1957 July 3 09:28 - NRL NN7.38F Solar Ultraviolet/X-ray mission Launch Vehicle: Nike-Deacon. Nike Deacon NN7.38F Apogee: 113 km (70 mi).
- 1957 July 15 14:23 - NRL NN7.39F Solar Ultraviolet/X-ray mission Launch Vehicle: Nike-Deacon. Failure. Nike Deacon NN7.39F Apogee: 28 km (17 mi).
- 1957 July 23 16:29 - NRL NN7.40F Solar Ultraviolet/X-ray mission Launch Vehicle: Nike-Deacon. Nike Deacon NN7.40F Apogee: 129 km (80 mi).
- 1957 August 5 12:10 - NRL NN7.41F Solar Ultraviolet/X-ray mission Launch Vehicle: Nike-Deacon. Failure. Nike Deacon NN7.41F Apogee: 14 km (8 mi).
- 1957 August 20 09:49 - NRL NN7.42F Solar Ultraviolet/X-ray mission Launch Vehicle: Nike-Deacon. Nike Deacon NN7.42F/DAN-20 Apogee: 96 km (59 mi).
- 1957 August 27 08:54 - NRL NN7.43F Solar Ultraviolet/X-ray mission Launch Vehicle: Nike-Deacon. Failure. Nike Deacon NN7.43F Apogee: 16 km (9 mi).
- 1957 August 28 13:21 - NRL NN7.44F Solar Ultraviolet/X-ray mission Launch Vehicle: Nike-Deacon. Nike Deacon NN7.44F Apogee: 96 km (59 mi).
- 1957 August 29 14:12 - NRL NN7.45F Solar Ultraviolet/X-ray mission Launch Vehicle: Nike-Deacon. Nike Deacon NN7.45F/DAN-23 Apogee: 113 km (70 mi).
- 1957 September 12 16:20 - NRL NN7.46F Solar Ultraviolet/X-ray mission Launch Vehicle: Nike-Deacon. Failure. Nike Deacon NN7.46F Apogee: 3.00 km (1.80 mi).
- 1957 September 15 13:27 - NRL NN7.47F Solar Ultraviolet/X-ray mission Launch Vehicle: Nike-Deacon. Failure. Nike Deacon NN7.47F
- 1957 September 18 18:42 - Solar Ultraviolet/Solar X-ray mission Launch Vehicle: Nike-Deacon. Failure. Nike Deacon NN7.48F Apogee: 21 km (13 mi).
- 1957 September 18 18:54 - Solar Ultraviolet/Solar X-ray mission Launch Vehicle: Nike-Deacon. Nike Deacon NN7.49F Apogee: 77 km (47 mi).
- 1957 September 26 20:00 - Test mission Launch Vehicle: Nike-Asp. Failure. Nike Asp NN8.50F Apogee: 16 km (9 mi).
- 1957 December 10 18:10 - Test mission Launch Vehicle: Nike-Asp. Nike Asp NN8.51F Apogee: 169 km (105 mi).
- 1961 October 1 - Test mission Launch Vehicle: Caleb. Caleb SIP Apogee: 20 km (12 mi). Satellite Interceptor Program (SIP) test vehicle. This was a follow-on to China Lake's "Notsnik" air-launched satellite and Caleb space-probe projects, SIP was a prototype air-launched satellite-killer system using primarily in-house technology and hardware.
- 1962 May 5 - Test mission Launch Vehicle: Caleb. Caleb SIP Apogee: 20 km (12 mi).
- 1963 March 18 - Deployability test mission Launch Vehicle: Sergeant. Apogee: 50 km (31 mi).
- 1963 March 20 - Deployability test mission Launch Vehicle: Sergeant. Apogee: 50 km (31 mi).
- 1963 March 21 - Deployability test mission Launch Vehicle: Sergeant. Apogee: 50 km (31 mi).
- 1964 December 16 - Denpro II Meteorological mission Launch Vehicle: Sparrow Arcas. Apogee: 100 km (60 mi).
- 1964 December 17 - Denpro III Meteorological mission Launch Vehicle: Sparrow Arcas. Apogee: 100 km (60 mi).
- 1964 Dec 17? - Frangible Arcas Test mission Launch Vehicle: Arcas. Apogee: 60 km (37 mi).
- 1965 October 20 - Flight test 1 Test mission Launch Vehicle: Terrier/551. Failure. Apogee: 5.00 km (3.10 mi).
- 1965 November 30 - DAT-371 Target mission Launch Vehicle: Redstone. Apogee: 50 km (31 mi). Redstone launched as ballistic missile target for a US Navy Terrier surface-to-air missile launched from Point Mugu, California. It was reported that there were two Redstone launches as part of Project Defender from November 30 to December 13, 1965, but details of the second launch are not known.
- 1966 August 2 - Flight test 2 Test mission Launch Vehicle: Terrier/551. Apogee: 443 km (275 mi).
- 1973 October 17 21:03 - Test/Astronomy mission Launch Vehicle: Aries. Aries NRL NB24.265 Apogee: 270 km (160 mi).
- 2004 July 29 17:25 - ATBM Test mission Launch Vehicle: Arrow 2. Arrow 2 F12 Apogee: 40 km (24 mi).
- 2004 August 26 - ATBM Test mission Launch Vehicle: Arrow 2. Arrow 2 F13 Apogee: 40 km (24 mi).
Bibliography and Further Reading - McDowell, Jonathan, Jonathan's Space Home Page, Harvard University, 1997-present. Jonathan McDowell's complete on-line listing of all objects orbited and over 20,000 rocket launches Accessed at: http://www.planet4589.org/jsr.html.
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