The Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division at Point Mugu is a 4,490-acre complex on the coast of Southern California, near Ventura. It is an aerospace weapons research and development, test, and evaluation center for the Navy, and has been developing missiles, drones, and target vehicles since World War II. Point Mugu is a principal component of the Naval Western Range Complex, a network of air and ground space used for missile tracking, testing, and training, which includes White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, and China Lake Naval Weapons Station in California. The Sea Test Range, 36,000 square miles of air and sea space off the coast at Point Mugu, including San Nicolas Island, is part of this complex. The Laguna Peak Tracking Station is on a ridge just south of the main base, and monitors launches of missiles from Vandenberg Space Force Base, Point Mugu, and other sites, and is part of a network of satellite control facilities headquartered at Point Mugu.