 Commemorative monument at the Keweenaw Rocket Range. | |||||||||||
 Map showing the location of the Range at the tip of the peninsula | |||||||||||
| Launch site | Keweenaw Peninsula | ||||||||||
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| Location | 47°25′48″N 87°43′1″W / 47.43000°N 87.71694°W | ||||||||||
| Operator | NASA & University of Michigan | ||||||||||
| Total launches | Unknown | ||||||||||
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The Keweenaw Rocket Range is an isolated launch pad located in the U.S. state of Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula. It was used between 1964 and 1971 for launching rockets for meteorological data collection.[1] NASA, along with the University of Michigan, conducted the project under the lead of Harold Allen. The site was one of six similar sites scattered about North America used to collect measurements of electron density, positive ion composition and distribution, energetic electron precipitation, solar X-rays, and Lyman alpha flux.[2]
One of the other well-known sites was Wallops Island, Virginia. The collected data was later to be compared to the five other sites.[3]
- ^ Kingsford rocket to honor Michigan history by Aaron Martin. "Kingsford rocket to honor Michigan history : News". UpperMichigansSource.com. Archived from the original on 2013-04-13. Retrieved 2013-05-01.
- ^ "Historic 1971 Keweenaw Rocket Launch - City of Hancock, Michigan". Cityofhancock.com. Retrieved 2013-05-01.
- ^ University of Michigan Report on the Keweenaw Research Range (PDF), Nov 1964