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launch. From 100 to 125 additional personnel will be required to support the LEAP program target launches. 12.4.4 Launch and Range Control WSMR and USAKA !Launches Emting Naval Onlnanl Missile Test Station (NOMTS) facilities will be used to support I the flight testing for LEAP launches at WSMR. NOMTS, the project sponsor at WSMR will provide: 1) prograk management for installation activities, 2) flight and ground safety I requirements, 3) funding to the installation, 4) facilities, launcher, missile assembly, and instrumentation, 5) range coordination and documentation, and 6) conduct the flight tests. I . ---·~. .. . ..... The host installation provides the airspace, instrumentation, data collection/reduction, mission scheduling, test[ execution and control, flight termination system approach, and flight termination control. For flights originating at WSMR, the blockhouse at LC 36 will be used I for the Launch Operation Control Center. Building 300 will be utilized for range control. Similar flights are rouhely conducted from LC 36, and similar operations are regularly I performed at LC 37 and Building 300. For flights launched from USAKA, the Meek Island I Control Building (Building 5050) will be used for launch control. The Range Operations Control Center on Kw~jalein will be utilized for range control. Meek Island at USj will be used to suunort the Kwaja!ein Atoll based LEAP launches. Launch and support fadilities on Meek Isl~d have been previously constructed for the SDI program and would bd used in support of the LEAP Program. These include a newly constructed missile assdmbly building (MAB), launch station, launch equipment room and I payload assembly building, and fueling area. Rehabilitated buildings include the M~~ck Island. Control Buildink (Bldg. 5050) ·for launch control and technical support, Launch . . Equipment Room (Bldg. 5070), Payload Assembly Building (Bldg. 5087), Ni~ogen Tetroxide .. I • Storage Area (Bldg. 5090) and a number of other support structures used for warehousing, maintenance shops, etc 1 • (USASDC, 1989). 1·36
( ) J ) Wake Island Launches Target launches at Wake Island in support of LEAP will utilize existing launch facilities that were constructed for the Starbird program but are not currently in use. Flight test activities begin at the completion of final checkout at the launch pad, when the launch vehicle is turned over to launch personnel, and include the launch, monitoring and control of the vehicle during flight, range safety, and retrieval of data from the flight. Launch pad activities for each flight will include the final assembly of the missile and attachment to the launcher and launch of the missile. The launch elevation will be 80 to 89 degrees with a 130 to !50-degree azimuth. A representative baseline trajectory is provided in Figure 11. Overall responsibility for launch pad safety operations resides with the WSMR ground safety officer. Safety personnel develop ground, flight, and range safety plans and submit them to the appropriate safety offices at WSMR well in advance of the actual activities. This information is reviewed by a panel of safety personnel from interested and affected organizations. Through an iterative process, the panel develops the launch criteria for implementation by the WSMR ground and range safety officers. The safety plans, launch hazard areas, and debris analysis results are consistent with the analysis and mitigation measures identified in this document. 12.4.5 Ground and Flight Safety Booster Reliability Following is a briefing summary of the b"ackgrounds and reliability of the solid rocket motors which will. be utilized in the LEAP program. 1-37
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