# White Sands

*Test range*

White Sands Missile Range and NASA White Sands Test Facility

| | |
| --- | --- |
| Where it is | 32.5100° N, 106.6100° W |
| State | US |
| What is done there | rocket engine test site |
| Still working | yes |

Test ranges, observatories and ground stations are a hand-picked list kept in this project rather than a published catalogue: no catalogue answers which of the world's thousands of observing sites belong on a map of it. The article below is what lets the choice be argued with.

## What it is

White Sands Test Facility (WSTF) is a NASA rocket engine test facility and a resource for testing and evaluating potentially hazardous materials, space flight components, and rocket propulsion systems. NASA established WSTF on the White Sands Missile Range in 1963.

## Elsewhere

- This place on the live map: https://www.orbitalmap.space/?at=32.51,-106.61
- The article this row is vouched by: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Sands_Test_Facility
- Every object: https://www.orbitalmap.space/o/
- What this site is and what it reads: https://www.orbitalmap.space/llms.txt

## Where this came from

Compiled 2026-09-17. Selected by hand for this project. Description from Wikipedia (en). Description: CC BY-SA 4.0.