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  2. Spaceport America - Wikipedia

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    Spaceport America, formerly the Southwest Regional Spaceport, is an FAA -licensed spaceport located on 18,000 acres (7,300 ha) of State Trust Land in the Jornada del Muerto desert basin 45 miles (72 km) north of Las Cruces, New Mexico, and 20 miles (32 km) southeast of Truth or Consequences. [1] With Virgin Galactic 's launch of the VSS Unity ...

  3. Cloudcroft Observatory - Wikipedia

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    Cloudcroft Observatory. /  32.9795°N 105.7336°W  / 32.9795; -105.7336. Cloudcroft Observatory, ( obs. code: V29) is an astronomical observatory located in the Lincoln National Forest near Cloudcroft, New Mexico, approximately 23 kilometers (14 mi) northeast of Alamogordo. It is owned by the Tzec Maun Foundation, a private astronomical ...

  4. Very Large Array - Wikipedia

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    Very Large Array. /  34.0787492°N 107.6177275°W  / 34.0787492; -107.6177275. The Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array ( VLA) is a centimeter-wavelength radio astronomy observatory in the southwestern United States. It lies in central New Mexico on the Plains of San Agustin, between the towns of Magdalena and Datil, approximately 50 miles (80 ...

  5. SpaceX facilities - Wikipedia

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    SpaceX high-altitude test facility, New Mexico. As part of the SpaceX reusable launch system development program, SpaceX announced in May 2013 that the follow-up to Grasshopper, a high-altitude, vertical takeoff, vertical landing (VTVL) suborbital technology demonstrator would be tested at Spaceport America near Las Cruces, New Mexico.

  6. El Malpais National Monument - Wikipedia

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    El Malpais National Monument. El Malpais National Monument is a National Monument located in western New Mexico, in the Southwestern United States. [3] The name El Malpais is from the Spanish term Malpaís, meaning badlands, due to the extremely barren and dramatic volcanic field that covers much of the park's area.

  7. Shiprock - Wikipedia

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    Shiprock ( Navajo: Tsé Bitʼaʼí, "rock with wings" or "winged rock" [4]) is a monadnock rising nearly 1,583 feet (482 m) above the high-desert plain of the Navajo Nation in San Juan County, New Mexico, United States. Its peak elevation is 7,177 feet (2,188 m) above sea level. It is 10.75 miles (17.30 km) southwest of the town of Shiprock ...

  8. Geography of New Mexico - Wikipedia

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    Geography of New Mexico. With a total area of 121,590 square miles (314,900 km 2 ), [1] New Mexico is the fifth-largest state, after Alaska, Texas, California, and Montana. Its eastern border lies along 103°W longitude with the state of Oklahoma, and 2.2 miles (3.5 kilometres) west of 103°W longitude with Texas (due to a 19th-century ...

  9. Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System - Wikipedia

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    TDRS Program Logo Location of TDRS as of March 2019 An unflown TDRS on display at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia.. The U.S. Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS) is a network of American communications satellites (each called a tracking and data relay satellite, TDRS) and ground stations used by NASA for space communications.

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