Downrange, ordown range,[1] is the horizontal distance traveled by aspacecraft, or the spacecraft's horizontal distance from thelaunch 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]
Inmilitary slang,downrange is a term for being deployed overseas, usually in awar zone. It is also the name of acomic strip published in the newspaperStars 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 atGulkula, in theNorthern Territory of Australia, to track rockets launched from theWoomera Test Range inSouth Australia.[1]
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