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down⋅range

[adj. doun-reynj; adv. doun-reynj]
–adjective, adverb Rocketry.
being in the designated path from a launch pad to the point on a course generally taken as the target: The signal was picked up by a downrange radar station.

Origin:
1950–55; down 1 + range
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down·range   (doun'rānj')   
adv.   & adj.
In a direction away from the launch site and along the flight line of a missile test range: landed a thousand miles downrange; the downrange target area.
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