[Launch Alert] Vandenberg AFB Launch Schedule

Sat Nov 14 23:06:58 EST 2009

                             LAUNCH ALERT

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

                             2009 November 14 (Saturday) 19:55 PST
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                   VANDENBERG AFB LAUNCH SCHEDULE
                      As of 2009 November 14

                     Launch
                  Time/Window
  Date             (PST/PDT)              Vehicle       Pad/Silo
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NOV 18          To be announced         Minuteman III   ---
Vehicle will probably send one or more unarmed warheads on a ballistic
trajectory to the central Pacific  

DEC 7           06:10-06:23             Delta II        SLC-2W
Payload is the WISE infrared astronomy satellite. Launch occurs before
sunrise and may provide a Twilight Effect  

Unknown         To be announced         GBI             ---
Missile defense Ground-based Interceptor. Delayed from SEP 27  

Unknown         Evening                 Minotaur IV     SLC-8
First-ever Minotaur IV launch. Payload is the Space-Based Space
Surveillance (SBSS) 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.

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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                             SMALL WORLD

I never know when I'll run into a Launch Alert reader.

Last Thursday evening I was standing in line at a special H1N1 (Swine
Flu) immunization clinic in Ventura County. I began talking to an
emergency services volunteer overseeing the event.

I found out he worked on the Space Shuttle program at Vandenberg AFB
in the 1980s. We continued conversing and I learned he was a Launch
Alert reader.

He is one of several I've met over the years.

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