Private Company Tests Ballistic Orbital Space Access, New Propellant at U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground
July 24, 2020
July 24, 2020
YUMA PROVING GROUND, Arizona, July 24 -- The U.S. Army Test and Evaluation Command issued the following news:
The world record for the highest altitude artillery shot--which reached past the Karman Line into space-- was set at U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground (YPG) in 1966.
The test fire more than 50 years ago proved the concept of ballistic suborbital space access, but funding for the program was cancelled the following year.
Yet the idea of using artillery a . . .
The world record for the highest altitude artillery shot--which reached past the Karman Line into space-- was set at U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground (YPG) in 1966.
The test fire more than 50 years ago proved the concept of ballistic suborbital space access, but funding for the program was cancelled the following year.
Yet the idea of using artillery a . . .