[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 15 (Monday) 20:10 PDT
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                   VANDENBERG AFB LAUNCH SCHEDULE
                        As of 2012 October 14

                     Launch
                   Time/Window
  Date              (PST/PDT)              Vehicle          Pad/Silo
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Late 2012       To be announced         GBI                 ---
A Ground-based Interceptor will be launched to assess vehicle design
changes. This missile defense-related flight does not involve an
intercept attempt.  

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          06:25:26-06:30:26       Pegasus XL          Offshore
Payload is NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (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 could create a weak Twilight Effect
for observers in the San Francisco area and near northern California
coast as the high altitude exhaust is illuminated by the Sun  

Spring          To be announced         GBI                 ---
Missile defense test. A Ground-based Interceptor will be launched from
Vandenberg in an attempt to intercept a target launched from Kwajalein
in the central Pacific.  

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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