Real-time programming and Athena support at White Sands Missile Range

Abstract

The Athena is a four-stage missile launched from Green River, Utah toward White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, covering a ground range of 450 miles. It is designed to deliver a payload into White Sands with prescribed atmospheric reentry velocities and angles, so that re-entry phenomena may be studied, and radar performance against re-entry bodies may be evaluated.