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	Launch Vehicles
		The Proton K launch vehicle is used as a three-stage vehicle primarily to launch large space station type payloads into low earth orbit and in its four-stage configurations to launch spacecraft into high-energy (geosynchronous transfer, geosynchronous and interplanetary) trajectories.
		Launches from the east coast of the United States (the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida) are suitable only for low inclination orbits because major population centers underlie the trajectory required for high-inclination launches.
		For an interplanetary launch, the window is constrained typically within a number of weeks by the location of Earth in its orbit around the sun, in order to permit the vehicle to use Earth's orbital motion for its trajectory, while timing it to arrive at its destination when the target planet is in position.
	zebu.uoregon.edu /~js/space/lectures/lec19.html (3334 words)

	Space Archive - The Southwest's Source for Regional Space Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The next Vandenberg AFB missile launch is a Minuteman III ICBM scheduled for February 7 from silo LF-10.
		The 30th Space Wing is the Air Force Space Command organization responsible for all Department of Defense space and missile launch activities on the West Coast of the United States.
		The silohuette of the International Space Station (ISS) crossing the Moon is is clearly visible in this composite image by astroimager Ed Morana.
	www.spacearchive.info (3017 words)

	Vandenberg AFB -576th SMS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It is operated by the 30th Space Wing, and is the only military installation in the United States from which unmanned government and commercial satellites are launched into polar orbit and from which intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) are launched toward the Kwajalein Atoll to verify weapon systems performance.
		Space launches were to be conducted jointly by both commands.
		On October 4, 1958, Cooke AFB was renamed Vandenberg AFB in honor of the late General Hoyt S. Vandenberg, the Air Force's second Chief of Staff.
	www.geocities.com /atlas_missile/Vandenberg_AFB.htm (1299 words)

	Responsive Space - March 2006
		Launches are typically scrubbed for weather conditions such as fog or heavy winds, but those traditional constraints cannot be allowed to interfere with responsive launches, Payton said.
		Operationally responsive space requires a different mind-set—one similar to that for aircraft, where a problem is usually dealt with in a matter of hours or days, he said.
		In addition to launching small satellites at the beginning of a military operation, commanders may find themselves turning to small spacecraft to fill in the gap if an existing satellite is suddenly unavailable.
	www.afa.org /magazine/march2006/0306space.asp (3022 words)

	Profile: Vandenberg Air Force Base (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (2/17/06) -- It was a double-header for the mission assurance teams at Vandenberg AFB.
		In the summer of 2005, the Vandenberg Air Force Base launch schedules for upcoming Titan IV and Delta IV rockets were both slipped to October.
		On Oct. 3, 2005, two days before the planned launch, the decision was made to scrub the launch of the Delta IV L-22.
	www.aero.org /news/newsitems/vandenberg2-17-06.html (1095 words)

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		All launch systems and procedures will be thoroughly checked at and ready to support launch activities this year even though the first launch is scheduled for March 20,1986.
		Before launch, the MST and the SAB roll back to their "parked for launch" positions approximately 375 feet and 285 feet, respectively, from the launch mount.
		The launch mount is a steel-framed support structure anchored to the center of the pad with openings into the flame ducts.
	www.ktb.net /~billmeco/Slc6a.html (1708 words)

	Spaceflight :Vandenberg Air Force Base
		Vandenberg Air Force Base, which is often referred to by its workers as America's quiet launch site, is located at 34.7 degrees north latitude, at a spot on the rugged Central California coast where the shoreline runs east and west.
		They were used for operational training—a regular launch crew based around the United States would be selected to travel to Vandenberg to launch a missile out over the Pacific Ocean toward distant Kwajelein Atoll.
		The weather is often cold and foggy, and launch crews frequently fire their rockets in the fog, so that they are quickly lost from sight once they rise off their pads and sail into space on their often-classified missions.
	www.centennialofflight.gov /essay/SPACEFLIGHT/VAFB/SP47.htm (1680 words)

	World Space Centers
		The CLA Alcantara Launch Center, on the Atlantic coast outside Sao Luis, was expanded to handle the VLS orbital launcher; a formal opening was held in Feb-1990.
		Vandenberg is responsible for missile and space launches on the west coast and operates the Western Range tracking network extending into the Indian Ocean, where it meets the Eastern Range system.
		Vandenberg provides the US with access into polar orbits using due south launches and was to have provided a base for Shuttle departures on high inclination missions.
	www.braeunig.us /space/center.htm (3045 words)

	Vandenberg AFB Space Launch Complex 6 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Space Launch Complex-6 (SLC-6, nicknamed "Slick Six") at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California was a launch pad and support area designed for the launching of the Titan III in support of the cancelled Manned Orbiting Laboratory and later for the Space Shuttle, which it was never used for, due to budget and political considerations.
		Launches from SLC-6 fly southward into a polar orbit, not eastward as were typical launches from Florida.
		Use of SLC-6 was approved in 1975, and re-construction of the former MOL launch facility occurred between January 1979 and July 1986 as SLC-6 was rebuilt to accommodate the space shuttle.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vandenberg_AFB_Space_Launch_Complex_6 (2110 words)

	NASA - Space Shuttle and International Space Station
		A launch window is the precise period of time, ranging from minutes to hours, within which a launch must occur for a rocket or Space Shuttle to be positioned in the proper orbit.
		The Space Shuttle's large External Tank is loaded with more than 500,000 gallons of super-cold liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen, which are mixed and burned together to form the fuel for the orbiter's three main rocket engines.
		The Space Shuttle Enterprise, which was not designed to fly in space, made a series of appearances at air shows in the United States, Europe and Canada before being turned over to the Air and Space Museum.
	www.nasa.gov /centers/kennedy/about/information/shuttle_faq.html (2574 words)

	8-23-97 Frontier File
		An external space walk by Anatoly Solovyev and probably Mike Foale is scheduled for early September to install hand rails and inspect the damage on the Spektr module (Flatoday; NBC; ABC).
		Prior to the space walk, Vladimir Petrov, a Russian deputy finance minister was quoted as saying that it was time to retire Mir and end financing the station in 1998.
		Launch was from the Xichang Satellite Launching Center in southwest China.
	www.interglobal.org /frontier/8-23-97.html (1974 words)

	Space Launch Report
		The launch was part of a year-end launch surge that could see five Russian launches during December, nearly 20% of that nation's launch total for the year.
		It was the 117th space shuttle launch and the 33rd flight of orbiter Discovery.
		V174, the eighth Ariane 5 ECA and the 30th Ariane 5 to fly, was the fifth and final Ariane 5 launch of 2006.
	www.geocities.com /launchreport/slr.html (2677 words)

	Space Launch Complex 6 [SLC-6] -- Vandenberg Air Force Base (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The satellite needed a polar orbit for coverage, and VAFB "could provide near polar and retrograde azimuth launches which could not be achieved efficiently or safely from Kennedy."(3) The importance of accommodating the new generation reconnaissance satellite was DOD's underlying rationale for a West coast launch site.
		Vandenberg officials, according to the report, still were not sure that they had solved the problem of pad stiffness.
		The launch noise measured near the south VAFB haul-out sites was moderately loud, primarily due to the close proximity to the launch pad.
	www.globalsecurity.org /space/facility/vafb-slc-6.htm (8088 words)

	Spaceflight :The Titan Launch Vehicle
		The Titan IIIC variation (with the twin solid rocket motors) was intended to launch the Air Force's planned X-20 Dyna Soar piloted spacecraft as well as a variety of heavy unpiloted military satellites.
		A massive complex of launch facilities and assembly buildings was constructed at Cape Canaveral to support the Titan III program, which was projected for up to 40 launches per year.
		Lockheed Martin delivered the last Titan IV heavy-lift launch vehicle to the U.S. Air Force in early 2002, ending a string of missions that began in February 1959 and a heritage dating back to the earliest days of the space age.
	www.centennialofflight.gov /essay/SPACEFLIGHT/titan/SP11.htm (1544 words)

	New Launch Facilities
		The assumed STS launch rate of 2 flight per year utilized these facilities at approximately 50% of their capacity.
		A multi-purpose launch complex can be developed with defined interfaces to support all medium class boosters.
		Air Force Material Command Space and Missile Center (AFMC-SMC) conducted a Multi-Vehicle Launch Complex study (MVLC) 18 May 1992; developed the generic launch complex concept and defined a generic complex architecture to replace SLC-3W.
	www.fas.org /spp/military/program/launch/fac_new.htm (911 words)

	Factsheets : LGM-30 Minuteman III : LGM-30 Minuteman III (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Missiles are dispersed in hardened silos to protect against attack and connected to an underground launch control center through a system of hardened cables.
		Launch crews, consisting of two officers, perform around-the-clock alert in the launch control center.
		Should command capability be lost between the launch control center and remote missile launch facilities, specially configured E-6B airborne launch control center aircraft automatically assume command and control of the isolated missile or missiles.
	www.af.mil /factsheets/factsheet.asp?fsID=113 (592 words)

	NASA Quest > Space Team Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		My next stop was Vandenberg AFB, California with the AeroSpace Defense Squadron where I would rotate at three-month intervals between Johnston Island in the South Pacific Ocean and then six months at a time at Vandenberg.
		Although it is one of the least known of the many functions that are needed to support the launches of the Space Shuttle I felt this was the best job to have at Kennedy Space Center.
		It is very impressive for me to see the components of the space station on the floor of the processing facility one day and then seeing them in space.
	quest.arc.nasa.gov /space/team/ranow.html (938 words)

	TERRIERS Ground and Launch Operations Status
		Ground operations for TERRIERS are taking place at Vandenberg AFB located on the central California coast about 45 minutes north of Santa Barbara.
		Still no firm launch date has been scheduled, due to conflicts with the GOES launch, and we are still working toward the 17th.
		OSC is requesting the 19th for a launch date from the range, but NASA is still pushing for the 17th.
	www.bu.edu /csp/uv/terriers/launch.html (2517 words)

	Vandenberg AFB Launch Observations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The information is organized by the launch followed by the observer and the location from which he or she saw the event.
		However, a few minutes before launch the countdown was placed into an unplanned hold because a ship was heading toward a restricted ocean area adjacent to Vandenberg.
		This launch was visible for at least six minutes, the second stage ignition not even taking place until 4:34 and the boosters dropping after the five minute mark.
	www.spacearchive.info /vafbobs.htm (7128 words)

	Titan (rocket) - Wikimedia Commons
		MOL mockup launch Nov. 3, 1966 on a Titan IIIC from LC41 Cape Canaveral, FL.
		Viking 1 is launched, on Bord of a Titan 3E/Centaur rocket, from Launch Pad 41.
		Launch Complex 40: The second Titan 4B/Centaur (Modell 401), with Cassini/Huygens on Bord.
	commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/Titan_(Rocket) (477 words)

	Historic California Posts: Vandenberg Air Force Base
		Vandenberg's military service dates back to 1941, when known as Camp Cooke it served as an Army training facility for armored and infantry troops.
		These same geographic features were also ideal for launching satellites into polar orbit without overflight of populated land masses during missile liftoff.
		In addition, Vandeberg AFB was the sight of the Air Force's Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL) and the Space Shuttle programs.
	www.militarymuseum.org /VandenbergAFB.html (1183 words)

	Genealogy Template
		Vandenberg AFB was my first assignment with the Air Force.
		My support of those launches were basically sitting around in a wrecker (tow truck) until the launch happened.
		, Cooke AFB was renamed Vandenberg AFB in honor of the late General Hoyt S. Vandenberg, the Air Force's second Chief of Staff.
	www.laferriere.us /Military/VandenbergAFB.htm (1273 words)

	America's Space Program --Locate 1
		Launch Complexes 5/6, 26, 13, 14, 19, and 34 and the original Mission Control Center
		The Kennedy Space Center assembled and launched the rockets.
		You can obtain a larger version of Map 1, but be aware that the file may take as much as 11 seconds to load with a 28.8K modem.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/101space/101locate1.htm (271 words)

	SLC-6 Space Shuttle Launch Site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This series of photos was taken at the California Space Shuttle launch site known as "Slick Six".
		It was located on Vandenberg AFB and was converted from the never used MOL (Manned Orbital Laboratory) launch facility.
		Geologic conditions forced the complex to be abandoned once again so it was never used to launch the Shuttle either.
	www.cloudster.com /RealHardware/Slc6/SLC-6Top.htm (115 words)

	National Park Service: Man in Space (Table of Contents)
		Saturn V Space Vehicle (Alabama Space and Rocket Center)
		Launch Complex 33 (White Sands) — Phase II addition
		Space Environmental Simulation Laboratory (Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center)
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/butowsky4/spacet.htm (129 words)

	Virtual Globetrotting: Space Launch Complex 1 - Vandenberg
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		Silo Launch Test Facility 68-SLTF for Titan II (9.1km)
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