Malta Test Station, located in Malta, New York, is a former US Army fuel and explosives testing facility. It was established in 1945 and used to test rocket engines for the US Army's "Project Hermes", new fuels and explosives.[1] It has also been used for atomic energy research.[2]
Hermes A-1 Rocket test at White Sands, New Mexico. The Hermes A-1 used engines tested in Malta
The Wright Malta Corporation also worked on noise suppression systems, fuel cells, assisted technologically oriented start up businesses, waste-to-energy technology, liquid fuel propellants, and a number of other emerging technologies related to defense, energy, and product testing.[4]
The Malta Test Station was the site of a serious industrial accident in May 2004.[5]
The site and surrounding area has since been transformed into the Luther Forest Technology Campus, home to a new chip fabrication plant owned by GlobalFoundries. "Project Hermes" is commemorated by Hermes Road, one of the main access roads to the Technology Campus.[6]
It was listed as a Superfund site in 1987 and removed from the list following cleanup in 1999. It is being monitored by the US Environmental Protection agency to ensure that it is safe from possible chemical contamination.[7]
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Rocket engine test gantry at old Malta Test Station in Malta, NY in 2013. This place was the actual birthplace of the United States' Space & Missile programs not to mention the countless tests done at this site by the military on just explosives alone.
blast window in reinforced concrete bunker used to observe early rocket and explosive tests at site.
ladder going into reinforced underground bunker that housed equipment and electrical and sensor wiring conduits leading out to gantry.
reinforced concrete exhaust/blast pit that directed rocket blasts "out and away" from test gantry. "very overgrown and has appx. 4-5 feet of stagnant standing water"
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