[Launch Alert] Launch Schedule

[Brian Webb]

	     ASTRONOMY/SPACE ALERT FOR SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
 				  
			     Brian Webb, KD6NRP
			 Ventura County, California
			E-mail: kd6nrp@earthlink.net
		Web Site: http://home.earthlink.net/~kd6nrp
 				       
					     2003 February 16 (Sunday) 15:30 PST
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			VANDENBERG AFB LAUNCH SCHEDULE
			    As of 2002 February 16

		Launch
Date		Time/Window		Vehicle		Pad/Silo

MAR		00:01-06:01		Peacekeeper		LF-02
ICBM test launch (non-orbital). Payload is two unarmed warheads. Impact
area is near Kwajalein in the central Pacific. GT-32PA 

APR 30	Unknown		Pegasus XL		Offshore
Payload is OrbView 3 commercial reconnaissance satellite. Pegasus will
be air-launched from an L-1011 staged from Vandenberg AFB 

MAY		~08:00		Titan II		SLC-4W
Payload is a DMSP military weather satellite. 

MAY 20	Unknown		Pegasus XL		Offshore
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	LF-04
ICBM test launch (non-orbital). Payload is at least one unarmed
warhead. Impact area is near Kwajalein in the central Pacific. GT-182GM 

JUN 23	Unknown		Atlas IIas		SLC-3E
Payload is a classified National Reconnaissance Office satellite(s). 

JUL 20	Unknown		Delta II		SLC-2W
Payload is NASA's Gravity Probe-B scientific satellite 

AUG		01:01-07:01		Minuteman III	LF-26
ICBM test launch (non-orbital). Payload is at least one unarmed
warhead. Impact area is near Kwajalein in the central Pacific. GT-183GB 

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			NASA SEEKS HELP FROM SKY WATCHERS

NASA is still seeking help from the American public to supply video 
and still images of the Space Shuttle Columbia on its return flight to 
Earth. There has been a great public response, but more material will 
help the investigation of the Columbia accident.

Columbia glided across the western U.S. just before sunrise Saturday, 
February 1. The Shuttle flew just north of San Francisco around 6:50 
a.m. PST and broke up over eastern Texas around 8:00 a.m. CST. Any 
imagery, especially video, of the Shuttle's path might aid the Columbia 
Accident Investigation Board in determining the cause of the accident.

Media and private citizens who have video or still images of Columbia's 
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Mail videotapes to:

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