[Launch Alert] Vandenberg AFB launch Schedule

[Brian Webb]

                             LAUNCH ALERT
 				  
                              Brian Webb
                     Ventura County, California
                         kd6nrp at earthlink.net
                     http://www.spacearchive.info
		       
                                    2010 May 17 (Monday) 19:37 PDT
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                   VANDENBERG AFB LAUNCH SCHEDULE
                          As of 2010 May 17

                Launch
              Time/Window
  Date         (PST/PDT)             Vehicle          Pad/Silo
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JUN 6       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  

JUL 8       Evening?                Minotaur IV       SLC-8
Payload is the Space-Based Space Surveillance (SBSS) satellite.
Delayed from OCT due to concerns with the launch vehicle  

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

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

OCT 5       To be announced         Atlas V           SLC-3E
Vehicle will launch the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office's NROL-41
payload  

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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