[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 January 15 (Tuesday) 20:17 PST
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                   VANDENBERG AFB LAUNCH SCHEDULE
                         As of 2013 January 15

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

FEB 11          10:04-10:48              Atlas V             SLC-3E
Vehicle will launch NASA's Landsat Data Continuity Mission  

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  

NET APR 28      19:29:57-19:34:57        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.  

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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                           WEB SITE UPDATE

An audio report about last summer's Atlas V / NROL-36 launch from
Vandenberg AFB was posted to the Vandenberg AFB Multimedia page at:

  www.spacearchive.info/vafbmultimedia.htm

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