
As of 2008 May 11

A Taurus rocket carrying Taiwan's ROCSAT-2 satellite lifts-off from Space Launch Complex 576E at Vandenberg AFB. To access launch photos, videos, and audio reports, visit the Vandenberg Rocket and Missile Launch Multimedia library. Image courtesy U.S. Air Force.
This schedule lists rocket and missile launches from Vandenberg AFB for the next six months. It is a composite of unclassified information approved for public release from government, industry, and other sources. This schedule is essentially accurate at the time of publication, but may disagree with other sources. Details on military launches are withheld until they are approved for public release. For detailed information about this schedule, refer to the Notes section below.
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| Date | Launch Time/Window PST/PDT |
Vehicle | Pad/Silo | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 22 | 03:00-09:00 | Minuteman III | LF-10 | ICBM test launch (non-orbital). Payload is one unarmed Mk-21 reentry vehicle (warhead). Impact area in SW of Guam in a U.S. Navy test range. Glory Trip 197 |
| JUN 15 | 01:47-01:56 | Delta II | SLC-2W | Delta II 7320 launch vehicle configuration. Payload is the OSTM/Jason-2 scientific satellite. Spacecraft will enter a 1336 km, circular, non-sun-synchronous orbit with an inclination of 66°. The ground track will repeat every 10 days. |
| JUN 29 | To be announced |
Atlas V | SLC-3E | Payload is the DMSP F-18 military weather satellite |
| Summer | To be announced |
GBI | --- | Scenario calls for the launch of a mock warhead from Kodiak, Alaska followed by a Ground-Based Interceptor (GBI) from Vandenberg AFB. The DoD will announce the launch time several hours in advance. |
| AUG 22 | To be announced |
Delta II | SLC-2W | Payload is the GeoEye 1 commercial Earth imaging satellite. The booster will use the Delta-7420-10C configuration and insert the payload into a 425-mile (684-km), 98°, sun-synchronous orbit with a 10:30 a.m. equator crossing time |
| Unk | To be announced |
Delta II | SLC-2W | Vehicle will launch the Missile Defense Agency's STSS ATRR (STSS-2010) payload |
Notes
2007 NOV 4 - 2008 MAR 9: Pacific Time = UTC -8 hours
Abbreviations
| ~ | Approximately |
| NET | No earlier than |
| PDT | Pacific Daylight Time |
| PST | Pacific Standard Time |
| UTC | Coordinated Universal Time |
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