[Launch Alert] Vandenberg AFB Launch Schedule

[Launch Alert]

                             LAUNCH ALERT
 				  
                              Brian Webb
                     Ventura County, California
                  launch-alert-editor at earthlink.net
                        www.spacearchive.info
		       
                              2012 August 15 (Wednesday) 19:00 PDT
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The following statement was issued by the United Launch Alliance.

                     LAUNCH DELAY STATEMENT

Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. (Aug. 13, 2012) - The launch of an
Atlas V carrying the National Reconnaissance Office NROL-36 payload is
being rescheduled following a range instrumentation issue that
developed during the initial launch attempt Aug. 2. The NROL-36
mission leadership has requested a new launch date of Sept. 6 and the
30th Space Wing is now working with range and support agencies to
support this request.  The team working to implement the corrective
actions for the range issue with the Mission Flight Control Center
(MFCC) is working to have the MFCC corrective actions implemented,
tested and certified by late August. There are no issues being worked
with either the Atlas V vehicle or the NROL-36 space vehicle and they
remain secured in the Mobile Service Tower at Space Launch Complex-3
at Vandenberg Air Force Base.

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                   VANDENBERG AFB LAUNCH SCHEDULE
                         As of 2012 August 15

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

SEP 6           To be announced          Atlas V             SLC-3E
Vehicle will launch the classified NROL-36 payload for the U.S.
National Reconnaissance Office. The vehicle will also carry the
following secondary payloads: CINEMA (Cubesat for Ion, Neutral,
Electron, Magnetic fields), University of California Berkeley; CSSWE
(Colorado Student Space Weather Experiment), University of Colorado at
Boulder; CP5, California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo; CXBN
(Cosmic X-ray Background Nanosat) Morehead State University; SMDC 1.1
and 1.2, US Army Space and Missile Defense Command; Aeneas, University
of Southern California; RE, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory;
and three Aerocube spacecraft, the Aerospace Corporation.
 
NOV 14          To be announced          Minuteman III       ---
Test launch. The Defense Department may release some details about the
launch a few days in advance.  

JAN 22          Dawn                     Pegasus XL          N/A
Vehicle will be air-dropped from an L-1011 jumbo jet flying offshore.
The aircraft will be staged from Vandenberg AFB. Launch occurs shortly
before sunrise and may create a weak Twilight Effect as exhaust at
high altitude is illuminated by the Sun  

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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