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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.

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  • 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…
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SPACEPROBE	Non-orbital space operations
ST	Special Test
STEX	Space Technology Experiment
STM	Special Test Missile
STP	Special Test Program
STREP	System Technology Reentry Experiments Program
SWAS	Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite
TAC	Tactical Air Command
TARGET	Missile target for surface-to-air/air-to-air missile firing practice
TAT	Thrust Augmented Thor
TD	Technology Demonstration
TDT	Target Development Test
TDV	Technology Development Vehicle
TERRIERS	Tomographic Experiment using Radioactive Recombinative Ionospheric EUV and Radio Sources
TIP	Transition Improvement Program
TOMS-EP	Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer-Earth Probe
TREP	Thrusted Replica
TP	Test Pad
TRACE	Transition Region and Coronal Explorer
UTE	Unified Test Equipment
WIRE	Wide Field Infrared Explorer

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