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VANDENBERG AFB LAUNCH SCHEDULE

The schedule below 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.

VANDENBERG AFB LAUNCH SCHEDULE   As of 2013 May 2

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

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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          19:27:34                 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. The launch window is 5 minutes in duration. 

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 system 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 28          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. 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.).

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