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Point Arguello, the Glossary

Point Arguello (Spanish: Punta Argüello) is a headland on the Gaviota Coast, in Santa Barbara County, California, near the city of Lompoc.^[1]

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Alta California

Alta California ('Upper California'), also known as Nueva California ('New California') among other names, was a province of New Spain formally established in 1804.

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Argo D-4 Javelin

Javelin (Argo D-4) was the designation of an American sounding rocket.

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Astrobee

Astrobee is the designation of series of American sounding rockets with one to three stages.

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Atlas E/F

The Atlas E/F (or SB-1A) was an American expendable launch system and sounding rocket built using parts of decommissioned SM-65 Atlas missiles.

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Atlas H

The Atlas H was an American expendable launch system derived from the SM-65 Atlas missile.

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Atlas II

Atlas II was a member of the Atlas family of launch vehicles, which evolved from the successful Atlas missile program of the 1950s.

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Atlas V

Atlas V is an expendable launch system and the fifth major version in the Atlas launch vehicle family.

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Atlas-Agena

The Atlas-Agena was an American expendable launch system derived from the SM-65 Atlas missile.

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Bainbridge Island, Washington

Bainbridge Island is a city and island in Kitsap County, Washington, United States.

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Black Brant (rocket)

The Black Brant is a family of Canadian-designed sounding rockets originally built by Bristol Aerospace, since absorbed by Magellan Aerospace in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

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California

California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.

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Falcon 9

Falcon 9 is a partially reusable, human-rated, two-stage-to-orbit, medium-lift launch vehicle designed and manufactured in the United States by SpaceX.

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Farallon Islands

The Farallon Islands, or Farallones, are a group of islands and sea stacks in the Gulf of the Farallones, off the coast of San Francisco, California, United States.

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The Gaviota Coast in Santa Barbara County, California is a rural coastline along the Santa Barbara Channel roughly bounded by Goleta Point on the south and the north boundary of the county on the north.

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George Vancouver

Captain George Vancouver (22 June 1757 – 10 May 1798) was a British Royal Navy officer best known for his 1791–1795 expedition, which explored and charted North America's northwestern Pacific Coast regions, including the coasts of what are now the Canadian province of British Columbia and the U.S.

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Headland

A headland, also known as a head, is a coastal landform, a point of land usually high and often with a sheer drop, that extends into a body of water.

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High-frequency direction finding

High-frequency direction finding, usually known by its abbreviation HF/DF or nickname huff-duff, is a type of radio direction finder (RDF) introduced in World War II.

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Historic Spots in California

Historic Spots in California is a guide to historic places in the U.S. state of California.

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Honda Point disaster

The Honda Point disaster was the largest peacetime loss of U.S. Navy ships in U.S. history.

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José Darío Argüello

José Darío Argüello (1753–1828) was a Querétaro-born Californio politician, soldier, and ranchero.

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List of governors of California before 1850

Below is a list of the governors of early California (1769–1850), before its admission as the 31st U.S. state.

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Lompoc, California

Lompoc (Chumashan lumpo'o̥) is a city in Santa Barbara County, California, United States.

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Nike (rocket stage)

The Nike stage or Nike booster, a solid fuel rocket motor, was created by Hercules Aerospace for the Nike Ajax (M5) Nike Hercules (M5E1) (and M88 late in Hercules career).

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Nike-Asp

Nike Asp was an American sounding rocket.

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Nike-Cajun

The Nike-Cajun was a two-stage sounding rocket built by combining a Nike base stage with a Cajun upper stage.

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Point Arguello

Point Arguello (Spanish: Punta Argüello) is a headland on the Gaviota Coast, in Santa Barbara County, California, near the city of Lompoc. Point Arguello and Point Arguello are headlands of California, United States Air Force and Vandenberg Space Force Base.

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Point Arguello Light

Point Arguello Lighthouse is a lighthouse on Point Arguello in Santa Barbara County, California, serving the Santa Barbara Channel on the Gaviota Coast adjoining Vandenberg Space Force Base near the city of Lompoc, California.

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Portolá expedition

Point of San Francisco Bay Discovery The Portolá expedition was a Spanish voyage of exploration in 1769–1770 that was the first recorded European exploration of the interior of the present-day California.

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Presidio of Santa Barbara

El Presidio Real de Santa Bárbara, also known as the Royal Presidio of Santa Barbara, is a former military installation in Santa Barbara, California, United States.

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Rocket

A rocket (from bobbin/spool) is a vehicle that uses jet propulsion to accelerate without using any surrounding air.

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Santa Barbara County, California

Santa Barbara County, officially the County of Santa Barbara (Condado de Santa Bárbara), is a county located in Southern California.

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Scout (rocket family)

The Scout family of rockets were American launch vehicles designed to place small satellites into orbit around the Earth.

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Sounding rocket

A sounding rocket or rocketsonde, sometimes called a research rocket or a suborbital rocket, is an instrument-carrying rocket designed to take measurements and perform scientific experiments during its sub-orbital flight.

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Spain

Spain, formally the Kingdom of Spain, is a country located in Southwestern Europe, with parts of its territory in the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and Africa.

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Spanish language

Spanish (español) or Castilian (castellano) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.

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Thor-Agena

Thor-Agena was a series of orbital launch vehicles.

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Thorad-Agena

Thorad-Agena was an American expendable launch system, derived from the Thor and Delta rockets.

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Titan 23G

The Titan 23G, Titan II(23)G, Titan 2(23)G or Titan II SLV was an American expendable launch system derived from the LGM-25C Titan II intercontinental ballistic missile.

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Titan 34D

The Titan 34D was a United States expendable launch vehicle used to launch a number of satellites for military applications.

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Titan IIIB

Titan IIIB was the collective name for a number of derivatives of the Titan II ICBM and Titan III launch vehicle, modified by the addition of an Agena upper stage.

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Titan IIID

The Titan IIID or Titan 3D was an American expendable launch system, part of the Titan rocket family.

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Titan IV

Titan IV was a family of heavy-lift space launch vehicles developed by Martin Marietta and operated by the United States Air Force from 1989 to 2005.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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United States Air Force

The United States Air Force (USAF) is the air service branch of the United States Armed Forces, and is one of the eight uniformed services of the United States.

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Vandenberg Probe Launch Complex C

Probe Launch Complex C or PLC-C at the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, United States, is a launch complex which was used for six sounding rocket launches between 1971 and 1975. Point Arguello and Vandenberg Probe Launch Complex C are Vandenberg Space Force Base.

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Vandenberg Space Force Base

Vandenberg Space Force Base, previously Vandenberg Air Force Base, is a United States Space Force Base in Santa Barbara County, California.

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Vandenberg Space Launch Complex 3

Space Launch Complex 3 (SLC-3) is a launch site at Vandenberg Space Force Base that consists of two separate launch pads. Point Arguello and Vandenberg Space Launch Complex 3 are Vandenberg Space Force Base.

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Vandenberg Space Launch Complex 4

Space Launch Complex 4 (SLC-4) is a launch and landing site at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, U.S. It has two pads, both of which are used by SpaceX for Falcon 9, one for launch operations, and the other as Landing Zone 4 (LZ-4) for SpaceX landings. Point Arguello and Vandenberg Space Launch Complex 4 are Vandenberg Space Force Base.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_Arguello

Also known as Point Argueles, Point Arguello Launch Complex A, Point Arguello Launch Complex B.

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See also

Headlands of California

Vandenberg Space Force Base

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