[Launch Alert] Vandenberg AFB Launch Schedule

Fri Jul 2 09:16:36 EDT 2010

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

                                    2010 July 2 (Friday) 06:07 PDT
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                    VANDENBERG AFB LAUNCH SCHEDULE
                          As of 2010 July 2

                      Launch
                   Time/Window
  Date              (PST/PDT)             Vehicle           Pad/Silo
--------         ---------------         ----------         --------

JUL 18?          Evening                 Minotaur IV        SLC-8
Payload is the Space-Based Space Surveillance (SBSS) satellite.
Delayed from OCT due to concerns with the launch vehicle. Launch date
is tentative and subject to change. Launch window is believed to
occur too long after sunset for the vehicle's exhaust to be
illuminated by the Sun

SEP              To be announced         Minuteman III      ---
Vehicle will probably send one or more unarmed warheads on a ballistic
trajectory to the central Pacific  

SEP 7            To be announced         Atlas V            SLC-3E
Vehicle will launch the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office's NROL-41
payload  

OCT 29           19:21-19:34             Delta II           SLC-2W
Vehicle will launch the COSMO-SkyMed 4 radar Earth-imaging satellite.
Launch window opens near the end of deep evening twilight  

NOV 22           02:09                   Taurus XL          576E
Payload is the Glory scientific satellite. Vehicle will carry three
small satellites as secondary payloads: Explorer 1 Prime (Montana State
University), Hermes (University of Colorado), and KySat-1 (Kentucky
space consortium).  

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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