North Truro, Massachusetts

42.059866666667 - 70.142055555556Koordinaten: 42 ° 4 ' N, 70 ° 9' W

North Truro is the name of a rocket launch site on the grounds of the North Truro Air Force Station near the city of Truro on Cape Cod in Massachusetts.

The launch site was created in 1969 by teams from the U.S. Air Force, because the military Missile and Drone Division supported the MIT in the development of sensors. To this end, it was cheaper to build a new launch site near the MIT. Under the project name in 1970 Have horn sounding rockets were launched from the type of Nike Hydac here between December 1969 and early. After completing the operation, the devices used were back to the base of the Missile and Drone Division, Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico, returned.