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Updated August 2007
Missile Facilities
Base de Lanzamiento Vicecomodoro Marambio
Other Names: Vicecomodoro Marambio, Marambio
Location: King George Island, Antarctica
Subordinate to: Air Force
Primary Function: Telemetry, tracking, rocket and meteorological balloon launch
Description: In operation since 1976. A main launch site for CASTOR sounding rockets. A group of CNIE technicians was resident at the base beginning in 1979. Its launch and tracking facilities are available year round.
Key Sources:
Eduardo Barcelona and Julio Villalonga, Relaciones carnales: la verdadera historia de la construcción y destrucción del misil Cóndor II (Buenos Aires: Planeta, 1992), p. 35.
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