[Launch Alert] Vandenberg AFB Launch Schedule

[Launch Alert]

                             LAUNCH ALERT
 				  
                              Brian Webb
                     Ventura County, California
                  launch-alert-editor at earthlink.net
                        www.spacearchive.info
		       
                                 2013 April 16 (Tuesday) 19:50 PDT
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                   VANDENBERG AFB LAUNCH SCHEDULE
                         As of 2013 April 16

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

MAY             To be announced          Minuteman III       ---
The vehicle will probably send an unarmed warhead on a ballistic
trajectory to Kwajalein in the Central Pacific. Delayed from mid-April
to prevent the test from being misconstrued by North Korea following
heightened tensions in East Asia. The Defense Department will probably
release details about the test a few days in advance.  

JUN 26          Late afternoon?          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 date
is unclear. Prelaunch preparations will continue to protect a May 18
launch date.  

JUL 9           09:00-11:00              Falcon 9            SLC-4E
Vehicle will launch the Cassiope satellite for the Canadian Space
Agency  

Summer          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.  

AUG             To be announced          Delta IV Heavy      SLC-6
Vehicle will launch the classified NROL-65 payload for the U.S.
National Reconnaissance Office  

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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