Engineering:Downrange
Downrange, or down range,[1] is the horizontal distance traveled by a spacecraft, or the spacecraft's horizontal distance from the launch site. More often, it is used as an adverb or adjective specifying the direction of that travel being measured in a horizontal direction.[citation needed]
In military slang, downrange is a term for being deployed overseas, usually in a war zone. It is also the name of a comic strip published in the newspaper Stars and Stripes.[2] It can also refer to the direction of fire: away from the source and in the direction of the target.[citation needed]
In the 1960s and 1970s, a down range tracking system existed at Gulkula, in the Northern Territory of Australia, to track rockets launched from the Woomera Test Range in South Australia.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Garrick, Matt (12 September 2020). "Northern Territory historical society saves satellite tracker from scrap heap after a 3,000km journey". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-09-13/nt-rocket-tracker-hauled-3000kms-through-nt/12657984.
- ↑ Seth Robson (November 8, 2018). "Century-old Stars and Stripes cartoons serve as vivid reminder of WWI troops' struggles". Stars and Stripes. https://www.stripes.com/news/century-old-stars-and-stripes-cartoons-serve-as-vivid-reminder-of-wwi-troops-struggles-1.555665.
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