The doors of three Experimental Test Site (ETS) Observa-Domes are open to allow their individual Ground-based Electro-Optical Deep Space Surveillance (GEODSS) telescopes to aim skyward to track asteroids traveling through space towards Earth. The ETS is located east of Socorro, New Mexico (NM), in the Northern Call-up Area (FIX) on the White Sands Missile Range, NM, and is operated by the MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Lincoln Laboratory to support the joint US Air Force (USAF) Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) funded Li


The doors of three Experimental Test Site (ETS) Observa-Domes are open to allow their individual Ground-based Electro-Optical Deep Space Surveillance (GEODSS) telescopes to aim skyward to track asteroids traveling through space towards Earth. The ETS is located east of Socorro, New Mexico (NM), in the Northern Call-up Area (FIX) on the White Sands Missile Range, NM, and is operated by the MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Lincoln Laboratory to support the joint US Air Force (USAF) Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) funded Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) Project. Base: White Sands Missile Range State: New Mexico (NM) Country: United States Of America (USA)


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