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The world record for the highest altitude artillery shot was set at U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground in 1966 and proved the concept of ballistic suborbital space access. The idea of using artillery as a low-cost alternative to rockets to launch payloads into Earth orbit lives on with a private industry customer called Green Launch conducting testing here to launch a projectile into space with an innovative new hydrogen and oxygen gas propellant. Preparations are underway to fire vertically into space at YPG later this year: the projectile will land about 20 kilometers downrange from its firing point, which is easily accomplished within YPG’s 1,200 square miles of land area and 2,000 square miles of restricted airspace that in places reaches to outer space.
| Date Taken: | 07.22.2020 |
| Date Posted: | 07.22.2020 16:39 |
| Photo ID: | 6282490 |
| VIRIN: | 200722-D-GD561-055 |
| Resolution: | 4256x2832 |
| Size: | 6.55 MB |
| Location: | YUMA PROVING GROUND, ARIZONA, US |
| Web Views: | 31 |
| Downloads: | 10 |
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