The Fast On-orbit Rapid Recording of Transient Events (FORTE) was co-developed and launched by this lab located a long distance northwest of Santa Fe, New Mexico that was involved with the Manhattan Project during World War II.
The Fast On-orbit Rapid Recording of Transient Events (FORTE, occasionally stylized as FORT) is a lightweight satellite which was launched at about 8:30 AM on August 29, 1997 into a circular 800 km low Earth orbit which is inclined 70 degrees relative to the Earth's equator, using a Pegasus XL rocket. 
 It was developed and launched by the Sandia National Laboratory in cooperation with Los Alamos National Laboratory, as a testbed for technologies applicable to U.S. nuclear detonation detection systems used to monitor compliance with arms control treaties, and later to study lightning from space. 
Los Alamos National Laboratory (Los Alamos or LANL for short) is a United States Department of Energy national laboratory initially organized during World War II for the design of nuclear weapons as part of the Manhattan Project. 
 It is located a short distance northwest of Santa Fe, New Mexico in the southwestern United States. 
