[Launch Alert] Vandenberg AFB Launch Schedule

[Brian Webb]

                             LAUNCH ALERT
 				  
                              Brian Webb
                     Ventura County, California
                         kd6nrp at earthlink.net
                     http://www.spacearchive.info
		       
                                2010 January 17 (Sunday) 17:33 PST
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                   VANDENBERG AFB LAUNCH SCHEDULE
                        As of 2010 January 17

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

JUN             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.  

JUN             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.  

SEP             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.  

OCT-NOV         To be announced          Delta II             SLC-2W
Vehicle will launch the COSMO-SkyMed 4 commercial radar Earth-imaging
satellite  

OCT-DEC         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  

OCT             To be announced          Atlas V              SLC-3
Vehicle will launch the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office's NROL-41
payload  

NOV 22          To be announced          Taurus               576E
Payload is the Glory scientific satellite  

DEC 1           To be announced          Delta IV Heavy       SLC-6
Vehicle will launch the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office's NROL-49
payload  

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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