[Launch Alert] Vandenberg AFB Launch Schedule

[Brian Webb]

                             LAUNCH ALERT
 				  
			            Brian Webb
		         Ventura County, California
		             kd6nrp at earthlink.net
	               http://www.spacearchive.info
		       
				              2008 May 15 (Thursday) 17:26
PDT
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			  VANDENBERG AFB LAUNCH SCHEDULE
			        As of 2008 May 15

		    Launch
		  Time/Window
  Date	   (PST/PDT)		   Vehicle		Pad/Silo
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May 22	03:00-09:00			Minuteman III	LF-10
ICBM test launch (non-orbital). Payload is one unarmed Mk-21 reentry
vehicle (warhead). Impact area in SW of Guam in a U.S. Navy test
range. Glory Trip 197 

JUN 15	01:47-01:56			Delta II		SLC-2W
Delta II 7320 launch vehicle configuration. Payload is the
OSTM/Jason-2 scientific satellite. Spacecraft will enter a 1336 km,
circular, non-sun-synchronous orbit with an inclination of 66°. The
ground track will repeat every 10 days. 

JUN 29	To be announced		Atlas V		SLC-3E
Payload is the DMSP F-18 military weather satellite 

Summer	To be announced		GBI			---
Scenario calls for the launch of a mock warhead from Kodiak, Alaska
followed by a Ground-Based Interceptor (GBI) from Vandenberg AFB. The
DoD will announce the launch time several hours in advance. 

AUG 22	To be announced		Delta II		SLC-2W
Payload is the GeoEye 1 commercial Earth imaging satellite. The
booster will use the Delta-7420-10C configuration and insert the
payload into a 425-mile (684-km), 98°, sun-synchronous orbit with a
10:30 a.m. equator crossing time 

Unk		To be announced		Delta II		SLC-2W
Vehicle will launch the Missile Defense Agency's STSS ATRR
(STSS-2010) payload 

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