Homing Overlay Experiment (HOE)

Lockheed Martin Space Systems heritage in missile defense dates back to the first successful hit-to-kill intercept of a mock ballistic missile warhead outside the earth’s atmosphere on June 10, 1984, by the U.S. Army’s Homing Overlay Experiment (HOE). The Homing Overlay Experiment was a series of four missile tests that were conducted in 1983 and 1984 at Kwajalein Missile Range in the Republic of the Marshall Islands. For each test a Minuteman missile was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., carrying a single mock re-entry vehicle targeted for Kwajalein lagoon more than 4,000 miles away.

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