NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Aeronautical Tracking Facility. NASA Photo/Bob Guere NASA’s Western Aeronautical Test Range (WATR) supports aerospace flight research and technology integration, space exploration concepts, airborne remote sensing and a wide variety of science missions.

Located at the Dryden Flight Research Center, as part of the Edwards Air Force Base complex, the mission of the WATR is to support flight research operations and low earth-orbiting missions. WATR supplies a comprehensive set of resources for the control and monitoring of flight activities, real-time acquisition and reduction of research data, and effective communication of information to flight and ground crews...Read more

For more information contact:

Multi-band telemetry system (TPLX). NASA Photo/Bob Guere Darryl Burkes
(661) 276-2517
darryl.a.burkes@nasa.gov