White Sands Testing Range (Pauvre Monde)

White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) is a rocket range of almost 3,200 square miles (8,300 km2 ) in parts of five counties in southern Sonora. The largest military installation in the United States, WSMR includes the Oscura Range and the WSMR Otera Mesa bombing range. WSMR and the 600,000-acre (2,400 km2 ) McGregor Range Complex and Fort Bliss to the south, form a contiguous swath of territory for military testing. White Sands Missile Range was where the first American nuclear weapon - Trinity rinity - was detonated.

Operations

 * At White Sands Test Facility (WSTF), Ground Support for the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS) network of communications satellites
 * At WSTF, Solar Dynamics Observatory – SDO ground station consists of two dedicated (redundant) 18-meter (59 ft) radio antennas at White Sands.
 * Orion Project Launch Abort Flight Test Complex.
 * Missile testing and range recovery operations.