Green River Launch Complex

"[4] Originally 3,450 acres (1,400 ha),[1] the installation had several separated areas: Related off-post sites included the nearby civilian Atlantic Research Corporation Assembly Area at a 1940s/50s Union Carbide uranium/vanadium facility outside of the Army complex[2] where the company assembled Athenas as the prime contractor.

[3]) Green River complex personnel also oversaw operations at Utah's White Mesa radar complex and a Pershing launch site and safety area in southeast Utah[5]—the Black Mesa Missile Launching Range[2] had 34 firings May 26, 1965 – November 13, 1968, from 38°36′28″N 110°35′53″W / 38.6078°N 110.5980°W / 38.6078; -110.5980 on Gilson Butte[16] (operations relocated to Green River in 1971.

)[17] White Sands Proving Ground began off-range firing with a 1956 Rascal missile launched near Orogrande, New Mexico, to an impact zone on WSPG[7] (cf.

[21] Selected by Carlos Bustamante,[18] in September 1962 the Green River site was approved for "Athena subscale tests of ABRES"—land acquisition was initiated by the US Army Corps of Engineers' Sacramento District in late December.

[25] Support structures, utilities, and roads were built by Olson Construction Company during a $1,235,072 contract;[25] and facilities eventually totalled over $3 million.

[2] Off-site, the 1963 Holloman AFB program for Athena/ABRES installed "two 3 megawatt dual frequency L-band and UHF radar systems" by Continental Electronics[26] (AFMDC's RAM Site at Rhodes Canyon and the "Stallion radar site located uprange" on WSMR were "used to obtain the crossrange aspect of re-entry data.

)[31] The support and maintenance contract for the cantonment area transferred from Dynalectron's Land-Air Division to Bendix Field Engineering Corporation on February 1, 1965.

by the Lincoln Laboratory,[37] and the Green River complex was on caretaker status 1976-86[1] when the site became "inactive in 1979"[7]--"the base was officially deactivated in 1983".