Rogers Dry Lake

E15739

dry lake natural runway playa

Rogers Dry Lake is a large dry lakebed in California’s Mojave Desert that serves as a natural runway and landing site for aircraft and space vehicles at Edwards Air Force Base.

Jump to: Surface forms Statements Referenced by

Observed surface forms (1)

Surface form	Occurrences
Muroc Dry Lake	1

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	dry lake ⓘ natural runway ⓘ playa ⓘ
associatedWith	Edwards Air Force Base ⓘ NASA ⓘ United States Air Force ⓘ
climateRegion	arid ⓘ desert ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
geologicalType	endorheic basin ⓘ
hasAlternativeName	Rogers Dry Lake ⓘ surface form: Muroc Dry Lake
hasFunction	flight testing support ⓘ landing operations ⓘ takeoff operations ⓘ
hasProperty	hard-packed clay surface ⓘ large area ⓘ very flat surface ⓘ
hasRunwayType	dry lake runways ⓘ marked lakebed runways ⓘ
historicallyUsedFor	Space Shuttle landings ⓘ X-plane test flights ⓘ high-speed aircraft testing ⓘ
locatedIn	California, United States ⓘ surface form: California Edwards Air Force Base ⓘ Kern County ⓘ surface form: Kern County, California Mojave Desert ⓘ
namedAfter	John Rogers ⓘ
near	Lancaster, California ⓘ Palmdale, California ⓘ Rosamond Dry Lake ⓘ
notableFor	being used as a backup landing site for the Space Shuttle ⓘ serving as an emergency landing site for spacecraft ⓘ supporting Edwards Air Force Base flight test operations ⓘ
partOf	Antelope Valley ⓘ Edwards Air Force Base ⓘ surface form: Edwards Air Force Base flight test complex
region	Southern California ⓘ
supportsFacility	Edwards Air Force Base ⓘ surface form: Edwards Air Force Base main runway complex NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center operations ⓘ
surfaceType	dry lakebed ⓘ
usedAs	aircraft landing site ⓘ runway ⓘ space vehicle landing site ⓘ
usedBy	Edwards Air Force Base test pilots ⓘ NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center ⓘ experimental aircraft ⓘ military aircraft ⓘ spacecraft ⓘ

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

412th Operations Group → basedNear → Rogers Dry Lake ⓘ

412th Test Wing → basedNear → Rogers Dry Lake ⓘ

Rogers Dry Lake → hasAlternativeName → Rogers Dry Lake ⓘ

this entity surface form: Muroc Dry Lake

Edwards Air Force Base → notableFeature → Rogers Dry Lake ⓘ