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Launch Summary, Vandenberg AFB, 2000

U.S. Department of War · 2000-02-03 · 113 pages · text by GLM-OCR

This is the Vandenberg AFB Launch Summary for 1958 to 2000, compiled by the 30th Space Wing Office of History and current as of 3 February 2000. It is the official registry of all major launch operations from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, starting with the first launch on 16 December 1958. It includes a chronology, annual launch totals by booster and by command, a launch facility guide, and a glossary. It contains no discussion of unidentified aerial phenomena.

From the source:Release of 2026-05-08 Incident: 2/3/00, N/A. This report summarizes the historical record of launches occurring at Vandenberg Air Force Base between 1958 and 2000.

  • p. 6 …Lawrence Livermore Laboratory LLV-1 Lockheed Launch Vehicle 1. (Became Lockheed Martin Launch Vehicle, and in…
  • p. 11 …Beginning with the eight mission, Pegasus was carried by a modified Lockheed L-1011 aircraft and…
  • p. 14 …The Athena rocket was formerly called LMLV (Lockheed Martin Launch Vehicle). The name was changed in…
  • p. 101 …15 Aug 95 GEMSTAR 0404 SLC-6 LLV-1 SPACE 1 Lockheed 1 1716. 30 Aug…

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OT PHASE I (See OT)

OT PHASE II (See FOT)

PALC Point Arguello Launch Complex

PAS Penetration Aids Study

PLC Probe Launch Complex

PRP Propulsion Replacement System

PVM Production Verification Missile

QuickScat Quick Scatterometer

RADARSAT Radar Satellite

RADCAL Radar Calibration

RAF Royal Air Force

R&D Research and Development (Category I & II before 1 July 1963)

REX Radiation Experiment

RSLP Reentry Systems Launch Program

SAC Strategic Air Command

SAFEGUARD An Antiballistic Missile (ABM) test program

SALVO Simultaneous launching of two or more missiles

SAMAST Sandia ABRES Material Systems Test

SAMPEX Solar, Anomalous and Magnetospheric Particle Explorer

SEASAT Sea [Observation] Satellite

SENT Severe nose-tip Environment Test

SET Single Engine Test

SFT Supplemental Flight Test

SLC Space Launch Complex

SLF Space Launch Facility

SLTF Silo Launch Test Facility

SLV Space Launch Vehicle

SM Solar Mesosphere

SMLV Single Module Launch Vehicle

SNOE Student Nitric Oxide Explorer

SOOS Stacked Oscar On Scout

SOT Special Operational Test

SPACE Orbital space Operations

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