[Launch Alert] Vandenberg AFB Launch Schedule

Sat, 21 Dec 2002 12:06:27 -0800

		ASTRONOMY/SPACE ALERT FOR SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

				Brian Webb, KD6NRP
			  Ventura County, California
			  E-mail: [email protected]
		 Web Site: http://home.earthlink.net/~kd6nrp

					   2002 December 21 (Saturday) 11:46 PST
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			VANDENBERG AFB LAUNCH SCHEDULE

		Launch
		Window
Date		PST/PDT		Vehicle

JAN 7?	06:18-06:33?	Titan II
Payload is Coriolis military satellite. Morning twilight launch 

JAN 8		16:45-17:30		Delta II
Payload is ICESAT environmental and CHIPSAT astronomical satellites.
This will be an evening twilight launch for observers in Arizona,
Nevada, and Utah. At lift-off the Sun will be above the horizon for
observers in western California 

MAR		00:01-06:01		Peacekeeper
ICBM test launch (non-orbital). Payload is unarmed warhead(s). Impact
area is near Kwajalein in the central Pacific. GT-32PA 

MAR		Unknown		Pegasus XL
Payload is OrbView 3 commercial reconnaissance satellite. Pegasus will
be air-launched from an L-1011 staged from Vandenberg AFB 

MAY		Unknown		Titan IVb
Payload is a classified National Reconnaissance Office satellite(s)

MAY		~08:00		Titan II
Payload is a DMSP military weather satellite

MAY 20	Unknown		Pegasus XL
Payload is SciSat 1 ozone monitoring satellite. Pegasus will be
air-launched from an L-1011 staged from Vandenberg AFB 

JUN		01:01-07:01		Minuteman	III
ICBM test launch (non-orbital). Payload is unarmed warhead(s). Impact
area is near Kwajalein in the central Pacific. GT-182GM 

JUN 23	Unknown		Atlas IIas
Payload is a classified National Reconnaissance Office satellite(s).