More Than 400 Rockets Soar From Sandia's Kauai Test Facility in 50-Year History

A white-orange oval, the rocket moves slowly, silently across the night sky, followed by a metallic roar that fades away the farther it flies from its launch pad at Sandia National Laboratories' Kauai Test Facility. When the rocket is an orange ember against the black backdrop, it sparks momentarily as a Navy ship in the Pacific Ocean destroys it. The rocket was a target for the Navy's newest interceptor missile, the Standard Missile-3 Block IB. It was launched from the Pacific Missile Range Facility's (PMRF) tenant, the Kauai Test Facility (KTF).

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