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Show rage February HILL TOP TIMES 12 ' Gape TeamworhPrpducesM BY BOB BOWMAN A Minuteman ICBM went of f 'like' W iRomaii candle sit Cape Canaveral, Fla., Feb. 1, 1961 ,and made missile history. r, ,, But its sucqess was "old stuff" to he thousands of military contractor, construction and other personnel at the "Cape" who have witnessed many successful firings fo various missiles and rockets. This is the team that for a decade has labored together missile proving a ground in:; the free world to close at the largest ..; i. tne missile gap anuj puv me tt yVB. the range, including the launching race the for ahead in space site at the Cape Canaveral Missile Located about 250 miles north of Text Annex. . ; Administrative . Patrick AFB, 15 and Ascension. In addition to the Center's $700 million capital plant, AFMTC operates 11 airfields and more than 40 cargo and special telemetry aircraft plus a small fleet of ocean range vessels to support its mission. 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Local V-- 8, t'' w4f 3 T i r ;'"'" " JS ,. v.:.:.:.:. ..... bv ' L'ilJ A huge Minuteman ICBM rests on the pad at Cape Canaveral, Fla., awaiting the order to be fired. In the background is its gantry, or servic e tower. The Cape is fringed with many gantrioi used in missile tests and space probes. At the left of the bird is the Minuteman s. unbilical that carries power to the missile when connected. MINUTEMAN a particular test. has tivities. . pad. From then on the Cape The principle of telementrjH'ik been a beehive of activity. At a typical downrange station Minuteman The MMostw there are from 120 to 160 full-tim- e comparatively simple. It conif .IV The Minuteman was the most technicians. Because the sta- of small radio transmitters place ac tions are located on small, sparsely spectacular firing at the Cape, inside the missile, such as th cording to many oldtimers. But populated islands, there is often no there were others, such as on 6 local economy to support them. Minuteman, which send informa p.m. (EST) on Dec. 18, 1958, when Thus practically all the necessities tion on as many as 175 separate Atlas was launch- of life must be brought in by functions on each flight. This ina 244,000-poun- d ed into orbit from the Cape. The boat or aircraft along with the formation is picked up by receiver giant missile achieved a velocity electronic parts, supplies and techof 17,100 MPH at burnout, about nical equipment needed to operate magnetic tape. Thus, long after the 4.V2 minutes after lift-of- f. It be- them. At many of the tracking actual flight, the Center can y came the world's largest satellite stations, rain water must be used a missile in the laboratory again and achieved an apogee of 928 for fresh water. Where rain is and again. Examples of some of miles and a perigee of 114.r. infrequfft, sea water is distilled to the information obtained through coast meet thstation's requirements. of Atlantic the telementry include missile altitude, Skirting attitude, battery voltage, tempera-turXfownrange Stations . Cape Canaveral are giant gantries vibration and acceleration. All stations have certain similar standing against the horizon like inAfter a test lanuch all of.j(he The which This instrumentation. skyscrapers. gantries, usually crew-chithe to are cludes used radar plots, and other data,' glorified actually tracking radars, stands, are used to service the track missiles in flight and record information are rushed to the missiles awaiting test. their position, and a telementry Center's data reduction facility at is of a the receiver site to "listen" to and the Technical Laboratory at PatTypical gantries ATLAS ICBM structure. record functions taking place in- rick AFB. Here the raw data is Resting on heavy railroad wheels side the bird. Each station also fed through automatic reduction mounted on tracks, the tower sur- has a timing signal generator process and in a matter of days, rounds the bird. When the missile which ties together to a split sec- the end product of thousands of is ready to fire, the gantry is ond all of the instrumentation at manhours expended on a specific pulled back leaving the missile all of the stations being used in test is available. nearly naked on the pad. Newest Facility The newest launch facility at TRINITY the Cape is the recently completed Minuteman area while facilities LUTHERAN for Centaur Saturns, the Ji millio. . e, E. F. Krogler. Rv. potior Goldi Ave. and Phone XX Field Rd. laylon, Utah Hill 4 ... m" Divine service Clasi & Sunday School 9A5 A. M. . 1 1 sin M. 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BENNIE 6-C- Triumphs re-fl- from 1959 - Support miles south of Cape Canaveral, furnishes administrative and logistic support for the AFMTCs headquarters and the Atlantic Missile Range. The Atlantic Missile Range begins with the Cape Canaveral annex where the missiles are launched. Other tracking stations are Jupiter; Inlet, Fla.; Grand Bahama, Eleuthera, San Salvador, Mayaguana, Grand Turk, Dominican Republic, Mayguez, Antigua, St. Lucia, Fernando de Noronha, radio-teletyp- 1980 jtm'-- - i96l i . covers Miami, Cape Canaveral land of on thin acres a 15,000 finger cut off from the Florida mainland by the Banana River on one side and the Atlantic Ocean on the other. The Air Force Missile Test Center (ARDC) is in charge of the Atlantic, missile range of which Cape Canaveral is only a part. To understand the organization of the AFMTC it is necessary to think in the terms of one organization and two items of real AFMTC state, Patrick AFB, and the Atlantic Missile Range. The latter comprised of the Cape Canaveral Missile Test Annex and 12 missile tracking stations exmore than tending 5,000 miles from the Florida mainland to Ascension Island in the. South Atlantic. All sites are interconnected either by submarine cae. ble or by Pan American World Airways and the Radio Corporation of America ai'e responsible to AFMTC for operation and management of south-easter- m&A- 17, 22 363 - 22nd Street and 3290 Wash. Blvd. Phone EX 37 |