[Launch Alert] Vandenberg AFB Launch Schedule

Mon Mar 1 23:19:25 EST 2010

                             LAUNCH ALERT

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

                                   2010 March 1 (Monday) 20:06 PST
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                   VANDENBERG AFB LAUNCH SCHEDULE
                         As of 2010 March 1

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

APR 20          Unknown                 Minotaur IV     SLC-8
First-ever Minotaur IV launch. Payload is unknown  

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

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

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

SEP 8           To be announced         Delta II        SLC-2W
Vehicle will launch the COSMO-SkyMed 4 radar Earth-imaging satellite  

OCT-DEC         Evening?                Minotaur IV     SLC-8
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-3E
Vehicle will launch the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office's NROL-41
payload  

NET NOV 22      To be announced         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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