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    Space Launch Complex 6 (SLC-6, pronounced "Slick Six") at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California is a launch pad and support area. The site was originally...
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    Space Launch Complex 4 (SLC-4) is a launch and landing site at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, U.S. It has two pads, both of which are used by...
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    Space Launch Complex 3 (SLC-3) is a launch site at Vandenberg Space Force Base that consists of two separate launch pads. SLC-3E (East) was used by the...
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    developed into a space launching facility in 1963. Prior to 1966 Space Launch Complex 10 West was known as Vandenberg AFB Pad 75-2-6. It remains a rare...
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    Space Launch Complex 5 (SLC-5) was a launch pad at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, United States. It was previously part of the Point Arguello...
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    Space Launch Complex 1 (SLC-1) was a launch pad at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, United States. SLC-1 consisted of two pads, SLC-1E and SLC-1W...
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    Barbara County, California. Established in 1941, Vandenberg Space Force Base is a space launch base, launching spacecraft from the Western Range, and also...
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  • Vandenberg AFB Space Launch Complex 6, a launch pad and support area This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Launch Complex...
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  • -120.61917 Launch Complex 576A, also known as Area 576, is a group of rocket launch pads at Vandenberg Air Force Base. The pads at the complex were used...
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    USA-224 (redirect from NRO Launch 49)
    USA-224 was launched atop a Delta IV Heavy rocket from Vandenberg AFB Space Launch Complex 6 in California. The launch was conducted by United Launch Alliance...
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  • Ikonos (category Spacecraft launched in 1999)
    planned for operation. IKONOS-1 was launched on 27 April 1999 at 18:22 UTC from Vandenberg AFB Space Launch Complex 6, but Athena II rocket's payload fairing...
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    government, on the US West Coast at Vandenberg Space Launch Complex 2 for a launch facility that has overwater launch azimuths for high-inclination and...
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  • Probe Launch Complex C or PLC-C at the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, United States, is a launch complex which was used for six sounding rocket...
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    21st Space Operations Squadron (21 SOPS) is a satellite control unit of the Space Delta 6 of the United States Space Force, located at Vandenberg Space Force...
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    "Atlas 576 SMS ICBM pad" with gantry became the Vandenberg AFB ABRES complex in September 1964 to launch ICBMs for reentry vehicle (RV) testing (moved from...
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    Since 2017, SpaceX uses Launch Complex 39A to launch their launch vehicles. Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS), operated by Space Launch Delta 45...
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    California in August 1979, and later served in the development of the SLC-6 at Vandenberg AFB in 1984.: 40–41  On November 24, 1980, Columbia was mated with its...
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  • schriever.spaceforce.mil. "Vandenberg Space Force Base > Home". "Space Launch Delta 45 Support". Patrick Space Force Base. US Space Force. Retrieved 24 January...
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    readiness firing at SLC-6 to validate the west coast launch site. In the aftermath, NASA's shuttle timetable was disrupted, and the Vandenberg tests, which would...
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    Titan I missile complex. Titan I missile complex 2A. Titan II ICBM in 571-7 site silo. Titan-II ICBM silo test launch, Vandenberg Air Force Base. Minuteman...
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    indicating the launch site (1 was Kennedy Space Center and 2 was Space Launch Complex 6 at Vandenberg Air Force Base, although Vandenberg was never used)...
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    Baikonur Cosmodrome achieved the first launch of a human into space (Yuri Gagarin) in 1961. The launch complex used, Site 1, has reached a special symbolic...
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    space shuttle missions were planned for Vandenberg AFB in California. However, the use of Vandenberg AFB for space shuttle missions was canceled after the...
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  • Retrieved December 3, 2022. Kodiak Launch Complex Archived 2009-06-07 at the Wayback Machine, AADC "Welcome to Virginia Space". Marsspaceport.com. Retrieved...
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    December 1966 – A Minuteman II launched from Vandenberg AFB, Calif. carried the first Minuteman ERCS payload into space for testing and evaluation 17 April...
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    polar-orbit and high-inclination launches used Vandenberg Space Force Base's Space Launch Complex 6 (SLC-6). Launch facilities at both sites are similar...
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    The 18th Space Defense Squadron (18 SDS) is a United States Space Force Space Domain Awareness unit located at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California...
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    One remained in use at Vandenberg AFB until it guided a last Thor-Agena launch in May 1972. It had guided over 400 missiles. On 6 September 1985 Strategic...
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    tank and SRBs en route to Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center Enterprise at SLC-6 at Vandenberg AFB Enterprise enroute to its new home aboard USS Intrepid...
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    million, depending on launch configuration. Date deployed: June 1989 Launch sites: Cape Canaveral AFS, Fla., and Vandenberg AFB, Calif. In 1988–89, The...
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