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Launch Pads Payload Assembly
Bldg. Rocket Assembly
Bldg. Rocket Storage Balloon
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The range facilities include an operations and office building, a 40 x 50 foot launch-control blockhouse complex, a 50 x 50 foot payload assembly building with a Class-100 cleanroom, a 285-foot instrumented meteorological tower, minicomputers to calculate wind weight parameters, and other buildings for rocket storage, assembly, and various operations and maintenance functions. Range telemetry support is provided by three S-band auto-track systems,
incorporating an 8-foot an 11-meter and a 16-foot dish, provided by NASA and
located on Poker Flat is connected to the Geophysical Institute by means of a digital microwave system which has a 45 Mbit/s (DS3) capacity. The fully-redundant microwave system provides the data channels (including Internet access) and most of the telephone circuits used at PFRR. Poker Flat is also connected via fiber optic link to the Geophysical Institute. The LIDAR Observatory hosts LIDAR (light detection and ranging)
experiments, and the T. Neil Davis Science Operations Center, which houses
magnetometers, riometers, all-sky auroral cameras, a meridian-scanning
photometer, a Fabry-Perot interferometer, and other observing instruments
such as the low-light color television camera and video recorder for auroral
research. Local tropospheric measurements are made at the Climate Change
Monitoring station. Downrange observatories exist at
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