Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site

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The Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site, Kwajalein Missile Range better known as or Reagan Test Site, is a missile testing station in the Pacific. It amounts to about 750,000 square miles and is home to rocket launchers on the Kwajalein Atoll (on multiple islands distributed ), the Wake Atoll and the Aur Atoll. Their main task is to carry out missile tests for the U.S. missile defense and space research program.

The control center is like most personnel and infrastructure development at the Kwajalein Atoll located in the Marshall Islands. Eleven islands of the atoll be used based on a long-term contract with the Government of the Marshall Islands by the U.S. military.

The system installed on the plant material comprises various radar systems, stationary and mobile telemetry analysis, optical recording device and a network of fiber optic cables laid under water for data transfer. The station also serves as a ground station for manned space flight and research projects at NASA.

The activities on site include tests of ballistic missiles, ABM attempts meteorological test series and the operation of the private space company SpaceX ( Space Exploration Technologies Corporation) on Omelek Iceland.