White Sands Test Facility

White Sands Test Facility is a NASA rocket engine test facility and a resource for testing and evaluating potentially hazardous materials, space flight components, and rocket propulsion systems.
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White Sands Test Facility

Latitude
32.56299° or 32° 33′ 47″ north
Longitude
-106.58656° or 106° 35′ 12″ west
Elevation
5,003 feet (1,525 metres)
Open location code
854MHC77+59
Geo­Names ID
11384363
Wiki­data ID
Q618540
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Turkish—“White Sands Test Facility” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: مرفق اختبار وايت ساند
  • Arabic: مرفق اختبار وايت ساندز
  • Czech: White Sands Test Facility
  • French: White Sands Test Facility
  • Hebrew: מתקן הבדיקות ווייט סאנדס
  • Indonesian: White Sands Test Facility
  • Japanese: ホワイトサンズ試験施設
  • Japanese: ホワイトサンズ試験設備
  • Persian: تأسیسات آزمایشی وایت‌سند
  • Persian: مرکز آزمایش وایت سند
  • Slovak: White Sands Test Facility
  • Slovenian: White Sands Test Facility
  • Spanish: White Sands Test Facility
  • Turkish: White Sands Test Tesisi

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