[Launch Alert] Vandenberg AFB Launch Schedule

[Brian Webb]

                             LAUNCH ALERT
 				  
                              Brian Webb
                     Ventura County, California
                         kd6nrp at earthlink.net
                     http://www.spacearchive.info
		       
                               2008 November 16 (Sunday) 10:27 PDT
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                   VANDENBERG AFB LAUNCH SCHEDULE
                         As of 2008 November 16

                    Launch
                 Time/Window
  Date            (PST/PDT)              Vehicle       Pad/Silo
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DEC-JAN        To be announced          GBI            ---
Scenario calls for the launch of a mock warhead from the Kodiak Launch
Complex, Alaska followed by a Ground-Based Interceptor (GBI) from
Vandenberg AFB. The DoD will announce the launch time several hours in
advance. Operation Name: FTG-05 

JAN 15         To be announced          Taurus XL      576-E
Payload is the Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) scientific satellite 

FEB 4          02:22-02:32              Delta II       SLC-2W
Payload is the NOAA N Prime environmental satellite 

APR 30         To be announced          Delta II       SLC-2W
Payload is the Missile Defense Agency's STSS ATRR 

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