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Norwegian rocket incident
The
Norwegian rocket incident
, also known as the
Black Brant scare
, occurred on January 25, 1995, when a team of
Norwegian
and
American
scientists launched a
Black Brant XII
four-stage
sounding rocket
from the
Andøya Rocket Range
off the northwestern coast of Norway. The rocket, which carried scientific equipment to study the
aurora borealis
over
Svalbard
, flew on a high northbound
trajectory
, which included an
air corridor
that stretches from
Minuteman III
nuclear missile silos in
North Dakota
, all the way to the
Russian
capital city of
Moscow
.
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