[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 August 15 (Thursday) 18:21 PDT
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                   VANDENBERG AFB LAUNCH SCHEDULE

                     Launch
                   Time/Window
  Date              (PST/PDT)               Vehicle          Pad/Silo
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AUG 28          To be announced          Delta IV Heavy      SLC-6
Vehicle will launch the classified NROL-65 payload for the U.S.
National Reconnaissance Office  

SEP 5           09:00-11:00?             Falcon 9            SLC-4E
Vehicle will launch the Cassiope satellite for the Canadian Space
Agency. The vehicle will carry the following satellites as secondary
payloads: CUSat 1 and CUSat 2 (Cornell University); DANDE (University
of Colorado at Boulder); and POPACS 1, POPACS 2, and POPACS 3 (Utah
State University).  

DEC             To be announced          Atlas V             SLC-3
Vehicle will launch the classified NROL-39 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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                STARGAZERS TO VIEW SMOKE RING NEBULA
                   Westmont College Press Release
                           2013 August 13

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - Westmont's powerful Keck telescope will
feature glimpses of the Moon, Saturn and the Ring Nebula during a
free, public viewing Friday, Aug. 16, beginning at about 8 p.m. at
the Westmont Observatory. The observatory opens its doors to the
public every third Friday of the month in conjunction with the Santa
Barbara Astronomical Unit, whose members bring their own telescopes to
Westmont for the public to gaze through. The viewing lasts for several
hours. In case of inclement weather, please call the Telescope Viewing
Hotline at (805) 565-6272 and check the Westmont website to see if the
viewing has been canceled. 

The Moon, a bit more than 10 days old in its current cycle, will lie
fairly low in the sky, skimming across the top of Sagittarius. "The
wonderful crater Copernicus will be out of the shadows this evening
and, if the seeing is good, the public should be able to see some of
the mountainous details in the center of this large crater," says
Thomas Whittemore, Westmont physics instructor. 

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                           WEB SITE UPDATES

Audio reports about the following Vandenberg AFB rocket and missile
launches were recently posted to the Space Archive web site:

Pegasus XL/IRIS launch (2013 JUN)

  www.spacearchive.info/pegasus-xl-iris.mp3

Ground-based Interceptor/FTG 7 (2013 JUL)

  www.spacearchive.info/gbi-ftg-7.mp3

For an extensive collection of Vandenberg AFB launch images and audio
reports, go to:

  www.spacearchive.info/vafbmultimedia.htm

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