[Launch Alert] Vandenberg AFB Launch Schedule

[Brian Webb]

                             LAUNCH ALERT
 				  
                              Brian Webb
                    Ventura County, California
                        kd6nrp at earthlink.net
                    http://www.spacearchive.info

                                2009 July 15 (Wednesday) 18:05 PDT
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                   VANDENBERG AFB LAUNCH SCHEDULE
                         As of 2009 July 14

                   Launch
                 Time/Window
  Date            (PST/PDT)             Vehicle        Pad/Silo
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AUG 23         To be announced         Minuteman III   ---
Vehicle will probably send one or more unarmed warheads on a ballistic
trajectory to Kwajalein in the central Pacific.  

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

OCT 6          To be announced         Delta II        SLC-2W
Payload is the WorldView-2 commercial reconnaissance satellite.  

NET NOV 1      To be announced         Delta II        SLC-2W
Payload is the WISE 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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                           PUBLIC LECTURE
          Ventura County Astronomical Society Press Release
                            2009 July 8

The Ventura County Astronomical Society will hold its monthly
meeting on July 17 at Mesa Union School, 3901 Mesa School Road, Somis,
CA. The speaker will be Dr. Ben Zuckerman Professor of Physics and
Astronomy at UCLA. 

Dr. Zuckerman's presentation will be "Direct Imaging of Massive
Extrasolar Planets". The first observational indication of the
existence of rocky extrasolar planets in the zone of life of an old
main-sequence star will be described. 

The meeting begins at 7:30 PM. Recorded Message: Starline 805-520-9666
or go to www.vcas.org 

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