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Missile Test Project
{{Use dmy dates, date=May 2022 The Missile Test Project (MTP) was a U.S. Air Force program operated by RCA Service Company ( RCAS) from Patrick Air Force Base, Florida, under the direction of prime contractor Pan American Guided Missiles Research Division ( PAA GMRD) during the 1950s and continuing on for several more decades. Under this program, RCAS instrumented and operated various ships and stations on the Air Force Eastern Test Range with electronic tracking and telemetry equipment. The instrumented ships and stations tracked incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) and, using radar or telemetry, also tracked manned or unmanned space vehicles orbiting the earth. Tracking stations MTP instrumented and operated the following tracking stations: CCAFS (designated AFE71), Grand Bahama Island (AFE73), Eleuthera Island (AFE74), San Salvador Island (AFE75), Mayaguana Island (AFE76), Grand Turk Island (AFE77), Antigua Island (AF ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RCA Service Company
{{unreferenced, date=September 2018 RCA Service Company (RCAS) was headquartered at Cherry Hill, New Jersey, and was a division of RCA created to service appliances and equipment manufactured by RCA. RCAS was divided into three major groups: * RCA Technical Services, which serviced the products manufactured by RCA for commercial customers such as broadcast equipment, computers, medical equipment, etc. *RCA Government Services, which operated administrative government contracts such as the Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS) sites around the world. (See below for a list of other contracts.) This later became known as GE Government Services when GE acquired RCA in 1986. * RCA Consumer Services. Technical personnel working for RCA Service Company, prior to it becoming RCA Government Services, were usually categorized as "global field service engineers". Consumer services The Consumer Products Division had offices in most major American cities and whose repairmen would ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USNS Sword Knot (T-AGM-13)
USNS ''Sword Knot'' (T-AGM-13) was a missile range instrumentation ship which operated as USAFS ''Sword Knot'' on the United States Air Force's Eastern Range during the late 1950s and early 1960s. ''Sword Knot'' operated under an Air Force contract with Pan American Airways Guided Missile Range Division headquartered in Cocoa Beach, Florida. ''Sword Knot'', assigned to the South Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean area, provided the Air Force with metric data on intercontinental ballistic missiles launched from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) in Florida as part of the Missile Test Project. It operated in the intercontinental ballistic missile re-entry area near Ascension Island, and was home-ported out of Recife, Brazil. After transfer to the U.S. Navy's Military Sea Transportation Service, ''Sword Knot'' was reassigned to the Western Range and home-ported in Port Hueneme, California. There, she provided data on missiles launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base Vandenbe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Recife
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Saint Helena
Saint Helena () is a British overseas territory located in the South Atlantic Ocean. It is a remote volcanic tropical island west of the coast of south-western Africa, and east of Rio de Janeiro in South America. It is one of three constituent parts of the British Overseas Territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha. Saint Helena measures about and has a population of 4,439 per the 2021 census. It was named after Helena, mother of Constantine I. It is one of the most remote islands in the world and was uninhabited when discovered by the Portuguese enroute to the Indian subcontinent in 1502. For about four centuries the island was an important stopover for ships from Europe to Asia and back, while sailing around the African continent, until the opening of the Suez canal. St Helena is the United Kingdom's second-oldest overseas territory after Bermuda. Saint Helena is known for being the site of Napoleon's second exile, following his final defeat in 1815. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Atlantic Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceans, with an area of about . It covers approximately 20% of Earth's surface and about 29% of its water surface area. It is known to separate the "Old World" of Africa, Europe and Asia from the "New World" of the Americas in the European perception of the World. The Atlantic Ocean occupies an elongated, S-shaped basin extending longitudinally between Europe and Africa to the east, and North and South America to the west. As one component of the interconnected World Ocean, it is connected in the north to the Arctic Ocean, to the Pacific Ocean in the southwest, the Indian Ocean in the southeast, and the Southern Ocean in the south (other definitions describe the Atlantic as extending southward to Antarctica). The Atlantic Ocean is divided in two parts, by the Equatorial Counter Current, with the North(ern) Atlantic Ocean and the South(ern) Atlantic Ocean split at about 8°N. Scientific explorations of the Atlantic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liberty Ship
Liberty ships were a class of cargo ship built in the United States during World War II under the Emergency Shipbuilding Program. Though British in concept, the design was adopted by the United States for its simple, low-cost construction. Mass-produced on an unprecedented scale, the Liberty ship came to symbolize U.S. wartime industrial output. The class was developed to meet British orders for transports to replace ships that had been lost. Eighteen American shipyards built 2,710 Liberty ships between 1941 and 1945 (an average of three ships every two days), easily the largest number of ships ever produced to a single design. Their production mirrored (albeit on a much larger scale) the manufacture of "Hog Islander" and similar standardized ship types during World War I. The immensity of the effort, the number of ships built, the role of female workers in their construction, and the survival of some far longer than their original five-year design life combine to make them th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USAS American Mariner
USAS ''American Mariner'' was a United States Army research vessel from January 1959 to 30 September 1963. She was originally assigned to the DAMP Project by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) to attempt to collect radar signature data on incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles in the Caribbean, the South Atlantic Ocean, and the Indian Ocean. Her initial operations involved providing radar track on the Atlas missile, which was under development at the time. Subsequently, she provided track on other types of missiles as they proceeded through their development and operational stages. In September 1963 the original contract was transferred to the USAF until the completion of the testing phase in 1964. Laid down in 1941 as the Liberty ship SS ''George Calvert'' (MC #20), she first saw service as the United States Coast Guard training ship TS ''American Mariner'', as which she served until 1953, when she was placed in reserve. After her Army career, she was transferred ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Type C4 Ship
The Type C4-class ship were the largest cargo ships built by the United States Maritime Commission (MARCOM) during World War II. The design was originally developed for the American-Hawaiian Lines in 1941, but in late 1941 the plans were taken over by the MARCOM. Eighty-one ships were built as cargo or troopships in four shipyards: Kaiser Richmond, California (35 ships), Kaiser Vancouver, Washington (20 ships), Sun Shipbuilding and Drydock in Chester, Pennsylvania (20 ships) and Bethlehem Steel Sparrows Point, Maryland (6 ships). All ships were capable of , driven by a single screw steam turbine generating . Among the variations of the design were the . They were followed post-war by thirty-seven of the larger C4-S-1 class, also known as the ''Mariner'' class. List of Type C4 ships file:USS General G.O. Squier (AP-130).jpg, USS ''General G.O. Squier'', a C4-S-A1 General series C4-S-A1 DWT: 14,863. Built by Kaiser Shipyards at Permanente No. 3 in Richmond, California, for th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USNS Sampan Hitch (T-AGM-18)
USNS ''Sampan Hitch'' (T-AGM-18) was a missile range instrumentation ship which earlier operated as the U.S. Air Force ''Ocean Range Vessel'' USAFS ''Sampan Hitch'' (ORV-1836) on the U.S. Air Force's Eastern Test Range during the late 1950s and early 1960s. ''Sampan Hitch'' operated under an Air Force contract with Pan American Airways Guided Missile Range Division headquartered in Cocoa Beach, Florida. ''Sampan Hitch'', assigned to the South Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean area, provided the Air Force with metric data on intercontinental ballistic missiles launched from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) in Florida. ''Sampan Hitch'' operated in the intercontinental ballistic missile re-entry area near Ascension Island, and was home-ported out of South Atlantic Fleet Hqtrs, Chagaramus (Port of Spain) Trinidad, BWI. Acquisition by the Navy ''Sampan Hitch'' was acquired from the U.S. Air Force by the U.S. Navy in 1964. Operational data Operational data while on U.S. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USNS Coastal Sentry (T-AGM-15)
USS ''Somerset'' (AK-212) was an that was constructed for the US Navy during the closing period of World War II. She was later acquired by the US Army in 1946 and the US Air Force in 1957 before being reacquired by the USN as the USNS ''Coastal Sentry'' (T-AGM-15), a missile range instrumentation ship. Construction The third ship to be so named by the Navy, ''Somerset'' was laid down on 9 October 1944, under US Maritime Commission (MARCOM) contract, MC hull 2166, by the Leathem D. Smith Shipbuilding Company, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin; launched on 21 January 1945; sponsored by Mrs. Fred Bradley, wife of the Michigan congressman. Initially earmarked to be manned by a US Coast Guard crew, ''Somerset'' was completed at her building yard on 19 February 1945. After she successfully completed her MARCOM acceptance trials, a Navy sub-board of inspection and survey recommended preliminary acceptance on 22 February 1945. US Navy service Broken-down for the voyage via inland waterways, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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