Strategic Earth Penetrator RSP-101 test at the Tonopah Test Range, page 1
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Topic started on 23-4-2011 @ 12:18 AM by gariac
Digging through the DOE FOIA, I came across this report:
Strategic Earth Penetrator

Basically, rocket delivery of a bunker buster. As usual, this comprised everything but the nuke. The test was done on September 28, 1988. The last notation on the document is in 2007. There is no indication when the document was declassified.

The report specified the target location, but not the actual point of impact. However, based on images in the report and google earth, you can tell it hit at
37°32'21.01"N 116°33'59.93"W

When there is a road on the satellite imagery that is not on the map, it usually leads to a mine or a crash site. Well at least in the Nevada dessert. On the Nellis range, it can also be a bomb test.

For recovery operations, there is often a staging area downstream from the point of impact. This is for basic logistics to support the recovery without being in the way of the investigation. There is a potential staging area to the west of the point of impact.


reply posted on 23-4-2011 @ 02:48 AM by gariac
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Did you download the document? Look at pdf page 18. for the layout The target is given on pdf page 32.

I checked the image history, but it only goes back to 2006. You would google earth to show the land prior to the test, i.e. before 1988.

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