[Launch Alert] Vandenberg AFB Launch Schedule

[Brian Webb]

                             LAUNCH ALERT
 				  
                              Brian Webb
                     Ventura County, California
                         kd6nrp at earthlink.net
                     http://www.spacearchive.info
		       
                             2009 December 31 (Thursday) 18:22 PST
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                   VANDENBERG AFB LAUNCH SCHEDULE
                         As of 2009 December 31

                    Launch
                  Time/Window
  Date             (PST/PDT)             Vehicle          Pad/Silo
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JAN 22          To be announced         GBI               ---
Missile defense Ground-based Interceptor. Delayed from SEP 27. Mission
Name: FTG-06  

Unknown         To be announced         Minuteman III     ---
Vehicle will probably send one or more unarmed warheads on a ballistic
trajectory to the central Pacific. Delayed from NOV 18 to allow for
the completion of pre-launch ground testing. A new launch date has not
been announced.  

APR 22          Evening?                Minotaur IV       SLC-8
First-ever Minotaur IV launch. Payload is the Space-Based Space
Surveillance (SBSS) satellite. Delayed from OCT due to concerns with
the launch vehicle  

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.

All launch dates and times are given in Pacific Time using a 24-hour
format similar to military time (midnight = 00:00, 1:00 p.m. = 13:00,
11:00 p.m. = 23:00, etc.). 

The dates and times in this schedule may not agree with those on other
online launch schedules, including the official Vandenberg AFB
schedule because different sources were used, the information was
interpreted differently, and the schedules were updated at different
times.

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                          WEB SITE UPDATES

The following additions were recently made to the webmaster's Space
Archive web site.

WISE News Story

An audio clip of a news story about the WISE spacecraft was added to
the Vandenberg AFB Rocket and Missile Launch Multimedia page. To hear
it, go to:

  http://www.spacearchive.info/vafbmultimedia.htm

Soviet Spacecraft Telemetry

An audio clip of data intercepted in 1984 from the Soyuz T-11
manned mission was posted to the File Library. This page is located
at:

  http://www.spacearchive.info/library.htm

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                           HAPPY NEW YEAR

I would like to wish all of you a healthy, prosperous, and uneventful
New Year.

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