Talk:Poker Flat Research Range

Another move?
This was just moved not long ago, but if nobody objects I'd like to move it again, to Poker Flat Research Range (with capital F and Rs). If that's the most correct name, as is noted at the old talk page, then that's where it ought to be. The stub and WikiProject Alaska tags are just templates which would be moved along with it; they've got no particular attachment to this name. —Zero Gravitas 19:25, 15 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Go for it. I wasn't sure where to put the content, and chose Poker Flat because it had the templates already. I also thought Poker Flat Research Range was a better name for the article, but at the time of my edit, I didn't want to create a third variation on Poker Flat. RockinRob Talk 19:32, 15 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Done. —Zero Gravitas 19:48, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Largest?
Poker Flat is "The world's largest land-based rocket range" at "5,132-acre (20.768 km2)"? It says so under the Sounding rocket article, also. How did they come to this conclusion? White Sands Missile Range is (1) in the world, (2) land-based, and (3) much larger at "3,200 square miles (8,300 km2)". Then there's Woomera Test Range in Australia at "127,000 square kilometres (49,000 sq mi)". I'm sure there are others. Perhaps it is supposed to say "world's smallest land-based rocket range"? Ehusman (talk) 04:13, 12 December 2013 (UTC)

What the writer questioned is a valid point. The physical size of the range proper would make it the smallest range in the world but in that the impact areas for rockets launched from Poker extend in a fan to Prudhoe Bay in the NW to the Canadian border in the NE and extend over 1,000 miles north onto the arctic ice shelf makes it much larger than WSMR or Woomera. It is also the only university owned rocket range. Ray Martinez, Launch Officer 1990-2009