[Launch Alert] Successful Launch

[Brian Webb]

                             LAUNCH ALERT

			            Brian Webb
		         Ventura County, California
		         E-mail: kd6nrp at earthlink.net
	          Web Site: http://www.spacearchive.info

				             2005 July 21 (Thursday) 05:26 PDT
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                          SUCCESSFUL LAUNCH
                     Vandenberg AFB News Release

Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. – An unarmed Minuteman III
intercontinental ballistic missile was successfully launched from North
Vandenberg at 1:01 a.m. PDT today.

The launch was a team effort by airmen from the 30th Space Wing and
the 576th Flight Test Squadron and the 595th Space Group. The
spacelift commander for this mission was Col. Jack Weinstein, 30th SW
commander.  Capt. Kevlin Dumas, 576th FLTS, was the launch director.
Members of the 595th SG installed tracking, telemetry and command
destruct systems on the missile to collect data and meet safety
requirements. In addition, members of the 576th FLTS Top Hand program
are conducting all missile crew duties for this launch.

The mission was to demonstrate the ability to integrate new products
into the weapon system.

The missile’s one unarmed re-entry vehicles traveled approximately
4,200 miles in about 30 minutes, hitting a pre-determined target at
the Kwajalein Missile Range in the western chain of the Marshall
Islands.

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