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	Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site, commonly referred to as the Reagan Test Site, is a missile test range in the South Pacific.
		The Reagan Test Site also serves as a tracking station for manned space flight and NASA research projects.
		Launch activities at the test site include ballistic missile tests, ABM interception tests, meteorological sounding rockets and a commercial space port for SpaceX at Omelek Island.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kwajalein_Missile_Range (274 words)

	Another US Missile Defense Test Fails (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Missile Defense Agency has attempted to conduct the test several times this month, but scrubbed each one for a variety of reasons, including various weather problems and a malfunction on a recovery vessel not directly related to the equipment being tested.
		The military is in final preparations to activate missile defenses designed to protect against an intercontinental ballistic missile attack from North Korea or elsewhere in eastern Asia.
		Wednesday's test was to have been the first in which the interceptor used the same booster rocket that the operational system would use.
	www.rense.com /general60/anotherUSmissiledefense.htm (259 words)

	MDA Link
		The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and the Army conducted an operational test of the PATRIOT Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) system at the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site on Kwajalein Atoll in the Republic of the Marshall Islands on Thursday, May 30 (May 29 in the continental U.S.).
		This test was planned to demonstrate the system's ability to properly classify the high-velocity, low-radar-signature target as a tactical ballistic missile (TBM), discriminate between the reentry vehicle and debris, and to destroy the target.
		The PAC-3 missile is a high velocity, hit-to-kill missile and is the next generation Patriot missile developed to provide increased defense capability against advanced tactical ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and hostile aircraft.
	www.mda.mil /mdalink/html/pacmay30.htm (468 words)

	The Operational Missile Defense Capability: A Historic Advance for the Defense of the American People (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Missile defense opponents of almost every stripe strongly held the view that missile defenses and strategic nuclear arms control were incompatible.
		Since ballistic missiles are launched in the direction of space and transit space on the way to their targets, the ideal location for boost-phase interceptors is in space.
		Missile defense supporters have much to be proud of with the Bush Administration's impending declaration of an operational capability to defend the United States against missile attack.
	www.heritage.org /Research/MissileDefense/bg1798.cfm (6724 words)

	DoD News: Missile Intercept Test Successful (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		EDT, and a prototype interceptor was launched 22 minutes later and 4,800 miles away from the Ronald Reagan Missile Site Kwajalein Atoll in the Republic of the Marshall Islands.
		This test is a major step in an aggressive developmental test program, and we will continue to pursue this testing regime to achieve a layered approach to missile defense, using different architectures to deter the growing threat of ballistic missiles carrying weapons of mass destruction.
		Over the next several weeks, government and industry program officials will conduct an extensive analysis of the data received during the flight test to determine whether anomalies or malfunctions occurred during the test, evaluate system performance and determine whether or not all flight test objectives were met.
	www.defenselink.mil /releases/2002/b10142002_bt520-02.html (464 words)

	Push is on for memorials to Reagan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Reagan Legacy Project, headed by the conservative activist Grover Norquist, was formed in 1997 to encourage tributes to Reagan in a variety of forms.
		Among the scores of other sites named for the Republican president is the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site in the Marshall Islands, a symbolic and substantive commemoration of the Star Wars defense initiative that he championed.
		While Norquist is a general promoter of Reagan naming initiatives, he actually opposed the decision to use the president's name on the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, the massive office complex adjacent to the Federal Triangle.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/04164/330897.stm (742 words)

	Air Force Magazine
		Ballistic missile defense has been an urgent DOD priority ever since the Bush Administration came to power in early 2001.
		While missile defenses will not replace offensive strike capabilities, “they are an added and critical dimension of contemporary deterrence,” the document stated, and will assure allies and friends and dissuade adversaries “from pursuing ballistic missiles in the first instance by undermining their military utility.”
		The test bed was to have a limited operational capability for use in a crisis.
	www.afa.org /magazine/Jan2004/0104missile.asp (2836 words)

	John J. Miller on Ronald Reagan & Sights on National Review Online
		Reagan loved a good story, but even he seems to think this one is apocryphal, at least the second part.
		At last count, there were 47 dedications in 18 states (including the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport) and 5 more abroad (my favorite: the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site in the Marshall Islands).
		Reagan's life was only getting started in small-town Illinois, of course, and there are lots of other sites to see.
	www.nationalreview.com /miller/miller200406070912.asp (805 words)

	Wired 10.04: Peace Is War
		The US Missile Defense Agency is housed in a five-story brick wing of a cheerless Navy annex that faces the damaged wedge of the Pentagon.
		Test targets are a far cry from battlefield conditions, but even longtime missile-defense opponents are impressed.
		Pike thinks missile defense is a dangerous poke in the eye of the global community, but he doesn't discount the EKV's potential effectiveness.
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/10.04/sdi.html?pg=3 (1125 words)

	Soldiers Magazine: Building Missile Defense in Alaska - Space and Missile Defense Command base in Fort Greely Alaska - ...
		Part of the multi-layered Ballistic Missile Defense System that has been under development for several years, GMD will use an array of radars and other sophisticated sensors to detect, track and intercept ballistic missiles launched against the United States and its allies, according to officials of the Missile Defense Agency.
		In a GMD engagement a ground-based interceptor missile is fired toward the incoming ICBM's predicted location, and at a predetermined point releases a small "kill vehicle." Using information from both ground radars and its own sensors, the kill vehicle maneuvers toward a collision with the ICBM, destroying both itself and the incoming missile.
		While successful test interceptions have been made by kill vehicles launched from the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site on Kwajalein Atoll [see "Kwajalein: More Than Rocket Science" in the July 2002 Soldiers], the GMD concept is still developmental, and has gone through a series of political ups and downs.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0OXU/is_12_58/ai_111113859 (1446 words)

	MissileThreat :: Missile Defense Test Failure (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Today the Missile Defense Agency attempted to repeat the December 15 test of the ground based midcourse missile defense system.
		The interceptor which did not launch was located at the Ronald Reagan Test Site on the Kwajalein atoll in the Pacific.
		Today’s failure represents another setback for the system, and demonstrates the need for further testing, but by no means does it indicate any less of a need for a missile defense.
	www.missilethreat.com /news/200502141039.html (241 words)

	U.S. To Conduct Missile Defense Test (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In this test, a missile interceptor will be fired from the Ronald Reagan Missile Test Site on Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands to hit and kill a modified Minuteman II intercontinental ballistic missile carrying a mock warhead launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, according to the Pentagon.
		The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) will conduct a developmental flight test to include the planned intercept of a long-range ballistic missile target in support of the missile defense test program on March 15, 2002.
		The third test, on July 8, 2000, did not result in an intercept due an unsuccessful separation of the EKV from the booster rocket.
	www.usembassy.it /file2002_03/alia/a2031410.htm (381 words)

	Missile-defense test failure adds to program delays
		Military technicians say they believe the failure of the $85 million test was caused by a problem with ground support equipment, not with the interceptor missile itself.
		The interceptor, located at the Ronald Reagan Test Site at Kwajalein Atoll in the central Pacific Ocean, was supposed to target a mock ballistic missile fired from Kodiak Island, Alaska.
		Delays in testing and implementation have forced the Bush administration to acknowledge that the system will not be operational early this year, a campaign pledge.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/02/15/MNGISBB1R01.DTL (529 words)

	"BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSE" - U.S. Foreign Policy Agenda, July 2002, Department of State, International Information ...
		Defensive systems designed for the terminal phase are most effective in protecting smaller target areas such as fixed installations, posts, and airfields, or troop concentrations and staging areas.
		If the missile is carrying a chemical, biological, or nuclear weapon, any remaining debris will fall short of the target, sometimes even on the country that launched the missile.
		The boost phase of the ballistic missile trajectory is defined as the part of a missile's flight lasting from the moment of launch through the completion of propulsion systems burn, when the missile enters the ballistic flight period of the mid-course phase.
	usinfo.state.gov /journals/itps/0702/ijpe/martin.htm (1629 words)

	Bechtel Briefs—August 2003—Kwajalein Atoll
		The Kwajalein site, which conducted the first successful space intercept of an intercontinental ballistic missile (icbm), could someday become part of an active defense network strung across the Pacific.
		The challenges his team faces are as vast as the Reagan test site itself, which stretches across an area of approximately 1.9 million square kilometers.
		During a test, vector and meteorological information is gathered from sea, air, and mobile radar sensors positioned throughout the atoll.
	www.bechtel.com /Briefs/0803/Data_Base.htm (998 words)

	Reagan Test Site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The U.S. Army's Reagan Test Site (RTS) is a premiere asset within the Department of Defense Major Range and Test Facility Base.
		The unquestioned value of RTS to the MRTFB is based upon its strategic geographical location, unique instrumentation, and unsurpassed capability to support ballistic missile testing and space operations.
		With nearly 40 years of successful support, RTS provides a vital role in the research, development, test and evaluation effort of America's missile defense and space programs.
	www.smdc.army.mil /RTS.html (208 words)

	Boston.com / News / Nation / Reagan's name likely to spread farther (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Years ago, Ronald Reagan was flattered to learn an Irish pub had been named after him.
		Then came an aircraft carrier, office buildings, schools, scholarships, all sorts of roads, a peace garden, a weapons testing site and more, waves of dedications unusual for a living figure.
		--The Ronald Reagan Institute of Emergency Medicine at George Washington University Hospital, where he was treated after being shot in an assassination attempt in 1981.
	www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2004/06/07/reagans_name_likely_to_spread_farther?mode=PF (317 words)

	Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation & Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Ronald Reagan was an honorary member of the Jonathan Club.
		The Ronald Reagan Library is a unit of the National Archives and Records Administration, a Federal agency.
		Reagan’s mother was a voluteer at this hospital for 15 years, and his son Michael is a member of the hospital’s advisory board.
	www.reaganfoundation.org /programs/lc/named_in_honor.asp (744 words)

	Arms Control Association: Arms Control Today: The Alaska Test Bed Fallacy: Missile Defense Deployment Goes Stealth
		The new site must be “consistent with the objectives and provisions of the Treaty,” and the total number of interceptor silos at all test ranges must not exceed 15.
		In addition to an interceptor launch site, this facility includes a prototype X-band radar, which is a one-third-scale version of the battle-management radar that is the key sensor to be used in the missile defense system.
		All four intercept tests that have been conducted have used the same intercept geometry—that is, the trajectories of the target and interceptor missiles and the planned intercept point have been the same in each test.
	www.armscontrol.org /act/2001_09/gronlundwrightsept01.asp (6112 words)

	Kwajalein - Voyager, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Eleven of the 97 islands are leased by the United States and are part of the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site (RTS), formerly known as Kwajalein Missile Range.
		Ebeye is not part of the Reagan Test Site, it is a Marshallese island-city with hotels, restaurants and an active commercial port.
		It is a Marshallese island and not part of the Reagan Test Site.
	www.voyager.in /Kwajalein (838 words)

	New Scientist Breaking News - US missile defence test flounders again (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		An interceptor missile sited on an island base in the Pacific Ocean was meant to obliterate a test ballistic missile in mid-flight, but it failed to launch, officials from the US Missile Defense Agency (MDA) revealed on Monday.
		But the interceptor missile - a rocket carrying a "kill vehicle" that detaches and homes in on the target - failed to get off the ground at the Ronald Reagan Test Site on Kwajalein Island in the central Pacific.
		The missile defence system was endorsed by President George W Bush in December 2002 with the aim of countering ballistic missile attacks on the US by any "rogue nations".
	www.newscientist.com /article.ns?id=dn7018 (419 words)

	US To Try To Hit ICBM With Interceptor Missile Once More
		Kwajalein's landscape is littered with radar domes, missile launchers and pieces of hardware that travellers are not allowed to know about -- and a golf course down the side of an enormous runway.
		In the late 1950s, growing Soviet success with ballistic missiles prompted the US Army to try developing its new Nike-Zeus and Nike-X missiles which were to shoot down the incoming missiles.
		Kwajalein played a key role in former US president Ronald Reagans proposed Star Wars defense system and although the programme has waxed and waned over the years, there has always been a steady flow of tests on the atoll.
	www.rense.com /general11/missle.htm (634 words)

	STSC CrossTalk - Kwajalein Modernization and Remoting Project Replaces Four Unique Radar Systems With One Common Design ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The radar sites' maintainability is greatly enhanced by employing a single common software solution that reduces lines of code by more than 70 percent and incorporates modern software languages, up-to-date operating systems, and a rigorous configuration control system.
		All features were tested first with simulators at the development facility, followed by full-system testing with live satellite tracks at site.
		The reliability of these radar sites is demonstrated by the fact that they have been 100 percent successful in fulfilling all mission requirements since becoming operational.
	www.stsc.hill.af.mil /crosstalk/2003/07/top5kwajalein.html (1704 words)

	Think Again - Center for American Progress (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Matt Bivens reports on The Nation Web site about the efforts of Republican activist Grover Norquist and the Reagan Legacy Project, which is well along toward its stated goal of having at least one public building or street or structure named after Reagan in each of America's 3,067 counties.
		That's on top of the push to have Reagan's face put on the ten dollar bill (instead of Alexander Hamilton), and the drives to put a Reagan monument on the Washington Mall (an honor so far reserved only for Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt) and to carve Reagan's head onto Mount Rushmore.
		And of course there's already a Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington and the twin-nuclear-reactor powered USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier, which was christened this summer...
	www.americanprogress.org /site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=11276 (910 words)

	Reagan Legacy Project- List of Dedications (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		There are currently 74 dedications to Ronald Reagan, 68 in the United States (25 states) and six internationally.
		Washington, D.C. Located at the hospital where Ronald Reagan was taken immediately after the March 30, 1981 assassination attempt.
		The Ronald Reagan Miracle Ranch is an educational facility assisting children with disabilities.
	www.reaganlegacy.org /dedications (970 words)

	Professional Report (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Future ballistic missile defense testing may require the capability to launch larger, more massive targets in a variety of engagement scenarios.
		The objective of the ERALT is to provide a future capability able to support ballistic missile defense testing with appropriate threat-representative target systems and flight trajectories, with capability to operate over the full segment of interest.
		More rigorous test scenarios would require that target launches be conducted from the Pacific Ocean area, between Hawaii and Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site (formerly Kwajalein Missile Range).
	www.aiaa.org /tc/mis/competition/ERALT_SOW1.html (1395 words)

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