Gagan
Marshall Islands /
Kwajalein /
Ningi /
World
/ Marshall Islands
/ Kwajalein
/ Ningi
World
island, military, instrumentation
Gagan is an island on the north-eastern fringe of Kwajalein Atoll.
Range instruments located here are Super RADOT, BC-4 ballistic plate camera, spectral ballistic camera, the Gagan Post Impact Telemetry System (PITS), and Kwajalein Missile Impact Scoring System (KMISS) deep water SONAR array.
The PITS consists of three post-impact disk-on-rod cone antennas and one dual-polarized antenna. Information collected is sent to KTC via fiber-optic link.
www.smdc.army.mil/KWAJ/RangeInst.html
www.atmos.washington.edu/MG/kwajex/ops-web/PIX/Gaganedi...
Range instruments located here are Super RADOT, BC-4 ballistic plate camera, spectral ballistic camera, the Gagan Post Impact Telemetry System (PITS), and Kwajalein Missile Impact Scoring System (KMISS) deep water SONAR array.
The PITS consists of three post-impact disk-on-rod cone antennas and one dual-polarized antenna. Information collected is sent to KTC via fiber-optic link.
www.smdc.army.mil/KWAJ/RangeInst.html
www.atmos.washington.edu/MG/kwajex/ops-web/PIX/Gaganedi...
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 9°17'13"N 167°32'13"E
- Dyess Army Airfield (ROI/PKRO) 15 km
- Meck 37 km
- Bucholz Army Airfield (KWA/PKWA) 65 km
- Wreck of HIJMS RO-39 329 km
- Wreck of USS Liscome Bay (CVE-56) 914 km
- Battle of Tarawa 1064 km
- Red Beach No. 3 1065 km
- Black Beach No. 2 1066 km
- Wake Island Airfield (PWAK / AWK) 1118 km
- Wake Island Atoll 1122 km
- Roi Namur 14 km
- Kwajalein Atoll 36 km
- Kwajalein 65 km
- Wreck of HIJMS RO-42 127 km
- Lae Atoll 147 km
- Wotho Atoll 194 km
- Wotho Island 194 km
- Rongelap 221 km
- Rongelap Atoll 239 km
- Ailinginae Atoll 242 km