Project West Ford

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Project West Ford (also known as Westford Needles and Project Needles) was a test carried out by the MIT Lincoln Laboratory on behalf of the United States military in 1961 and 1963 to create an artificial ionosphere above the Earth, to solve a weakness identified in military communications.

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