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DOW-UAP-D49, Launch Summary, Vandenberg AFB, 2000
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VANDENBERG LAUNCHER STATUS AND HISTORY
( lSTRAD/HD - ~.ar 83).
LAUNCH FACILITI
ACCEPTANCE DATE
DATE OF FIRST
PRESENT
ORIGINAL
CURRENT OR
FORMER
Bldq
BY AIR FORCE
LAUNCH
STATUS
PURPOSE
(LAST) USE
DESIGNATION
REMARKS
395-A LE-3
1879
27 Sep 60
20 Jan 62
TITAN I
(TITAN I)
Last launch - 14 Jan 65
Silo-lift (hard)
Decommis-
ICBM
(Spec Tes_t)
1799
sioned &
Last launch on 20 May 69 involved
395-B •
15 Jun 61
17 Feb 64
stripped
TITAN II
(TITAN II)
an ICBM that had been on strategic
Silo (hard)
ICBM
(OT)
alert in this silo for a year.
395-C
1050
4 May 61
16 Feb 63
Inactive
TITAN II
(TITA.'l II)
FIRST VANDENBERG TITAN II LAUNCH
Silo (hard)
ICBM
(BMDTIP/SCJf)
Last launch - 27 Jun 76
395-D
1520
25 May 61
13 May 63
Decoll1111is-
TITAN II
(TITAN II)
Last launch - 5 Apr 66
Silo (hard)
sioned &
ICBM
(CJf)
stripped
576-D
1920
30 Jun 61
15 Mar 63
ATLAS F
(ATLAS F)
Last launch - 31 Aug 64
Silo-lift (hard)
Decommis-
ICBM
(DASO)
1611
sioned &
576-E
7 Jul 61
1 Aug 62
stripped
ATLAS F
(ATLAS F)
Last launch - 22 Dec 64
Silo-lift (hard)
ICBM
(Spec Test)
SLC-5
580
7 Nov 61*
26 Apr 62
Active
SCOUT
SCOUT
PALC-D
NASA/European Space Satellites
(soft)
Space
Space
launched aboard American boosters.
l.F 00-02
1971
21 Nov 61
12 Apr 63
Active
MM I
MM
394 A-1
WS-133AM
Silo (hard)
ICBM
Training
Last launch - 26 Jul 75
"Pave Pepper [l"
LF 00-03
1972
21 Nov 61
30 Apr 63
Active
l+i I
MM I
394 A-2
WS-133A (Minuteman I Model B)
Silo (hard)
ICBM
RSLP
Non-Standard Launch Techniques
LF-00-04
1976
l Nov 61
28 See 62
Active
M'4 I
MM II
394 A-3
FIRST VANDENBERG MINUTEMAN LAUNCH
Silo (hard)
ICBM
OT
WS-133AM/ILCS, Wings I &IV
Improved Launch Control System
*Transferred from National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to USAF Vandenberg AFB, 1 July 1967.
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