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White Sands Missile Range

American  

noun

  1. a U.S. Army military testing ground for rockets and guided missiles in SW New Mexico, W of Alamogordo.


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It flew its first second aircraft in February at Spaceport America over White Sands Missile Range airspace in New Mexico.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2026

Mexico's Ciudad Juarez is just south and west of El Paso, and US Army base Fort Bliss and White Sands Missile Range lie to the north.

From BBC ● Feb. 11, 2026

The White Sands Missile Range occupies 2.2 million acres and is buffered by miles of private ranch land.

From New York Times ● Nov. 4, 2022

The facility would be called the Red Sands Integrated Experimentation Center, evoking the White Sands Missile Range, the U.S. military testing facility for extended-range missiles in New Mexico.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 16, 2022

SIMTEL20 The White Sands Missile Range used to maintain a giant collection of free and low-cost software of all kinds, which was "mirrored" to numerous other ftp sites on the Net.

From Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet by Electronic Frontier Foundation

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