[Launch Alert] Vandenberg AFB Launch Schedule

[Brian Webb]

                             LAUNCH ALERT
 				  
                              Brian Webb
                     Ventura County, California
                         kd6nrp at earthlink.net
                     http://www.spacearchive.info
		       
                                2009 April 1 (Wednesday) 19:19 PDT
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                   VANDENBERG AFB LAUNCH SCHEDULE
                         As of 2009 April 1

                     Launch
                  Time/Window
  Date             (PST/PDT)             Vehicle        Pad/Silo
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MAY 5           To be announced         Delta II        SLC-2W
Payload is the Missile Defense Agency's Space Tracking and Surveillance
System Advanced Technology Risk Reduction (STSS ATRR) satellite(s) 

Summer          ~09:12                  Atlas V         SLC-3
Payload is the DMSP F18 military weather satellite.  

JUL-SEP         To be announced         Delta II        SLC-2W
Payload is the WorldView-2 commercial reconnaissance satellite.  

OCT 1           To be announced         Taurus XL       576E
Payload is NASA's Glory scientific satellite  

The above schedule is a composite of unclassified information
approved for public release from government, industry, and other
sources. It represents the Editor's best effort to produce a schedule,
but may disagree with other sources. Details on military launches are
withheld until they are approved for public release. For official
information regarding Vandenberg AFB activities, go to
http://www.vandenberg.af.mil.

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