Andøya Rocket Range
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Andøya Rocket Range is the designation of a rocket launch site on Andøya island (the northernmost in the Vesterålen archipelago) in northern Norway. It is located at 69°17'39 "northern latitude and 16°01'15"eastern length. Since 1962 over 100 sounding rockets of various sizes have been tested here.
Andøya Rocket Range is a civilian facility owned by the Norwegian Space Centre (a company under the Royal Ministry of Trade and Industry, Norway). It has been the host of European Space Camp for secondary school students since 1996.
In 1995 a rocket launched from Andøya Rocket Range almost created an international crisis when it was detected by Russian radar and assumed to be a Trident launched from an American submarine in the Norwegian sea. This despite that the Russian authorities had been informed of the launch beforehand.
Andøya Rocket Range is located in Andøy municipality.
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