Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!skipper!shafer From: shafer@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov (Mary Shafer) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: California Coast Sightseeing Message-ID: Date: 23 Mar 91 15:36:12 GMT References: <1991Mar22.021115.3032@cbnewsh.att.com> <1991Mar23.095742.14378@cimage.com> Sender: shafer@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov Organization: NASA Dryden, Edwards, Cal. Lines: 19 People have inquired about a tracking station in Half Moon Bay. I'm pretty sure it's one of the Air Force's stations for the Pacific Missile Range (PMR). Among other neat things, they launch missiles from Vandenburg AFB to Kwajulein Island. I have a Kwaj calendar with pictures of multiple-head missiles landing in the lagoon, etc. We (Dryden) used the PMR tracking system during the Pegasus program. The Air Force telemetry and tracking radar were linked to our system so that we could monitor everything from here at Edwards, even though it was all out over the Pacific. I believe that the Half Moon Bay installation is the northernmost of these. -- Mary Shafer shafer@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov ames!skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov!shafer NASA Ames Dryden Flight Research Facility, Edwards, CA Of course I don't speak for NASA "A MiG at your six is better than no MiG at all"--Unknown US fighter pilot