[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 October 2 (Tuesday) 19:17 PDT
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                   VANDENBERG AFB LAUNCH SCHEDULE
                         As of 2012 October 2

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

NOV 14          To be announced          Minuteman III       ---
Test launch. The Defense Department may release some details about
the launch a few days in advance.

FEB 11          10:04                    Atlas V             SLC-3E
Vehicle will launch NASA's Landsat Data Continuity Mission  

FEB 27          Dawn?                    Pegasus XL          N/A
Payload is NASA's IRIS satellite. Vehicle will be air-dropped from an
L-1011 jumbo jet flying offshore. The aircraft will be staged from
Vandenberg AFB. Launch may occur shortly before sunrise and may
create a weak Twilight Effect as exhaust at high altitude is
illuminated by the Sun

APR             To be announced          Atlas V             SLC-3E
Vehicle will launch the GeoEye 2 commercial Earth-imaging satellite

APR-JUN         To be announced          Falcon 9            SLC-4E
Vehicle will launch the Cassiope satellite for the Canadian Space
Agency  

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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