The Redstone Rocket

To the Space and Missile Defense Command personnel who run the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site in the South Pacific, the March 19 successful test of the Army and Navy jointly developed hypersonic glide body is the most recent test supported by RTS.

Information gathered from the test and future experiments will further inform the Department of Defense’s hypersonic technology development. The event was a major milestone toward the department’s goal of fielding hypersonic warfighting capabilities in the early- to mid-2020s.

Through the past half-century, RTS radars, imaging systems, data collection capabilities, and personnel have supported hundreds of missile tests ranging from validation of concepts and designs for intercontinental ballistic missiles to anti-satellite systems to ballistic missile defense systems. Located halfway between Hawaii and Australia on the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands, RTS provides test support capabilities found nowhere else in the world.

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