dow-uap-d49-launch-summary-february-2000.pdf

# VANDENBERG AFB
## LAUNCH SUMMARY
### 1958 - 2000

30th SPACE WING
Office of History

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DISTRIBUTION LIST

1 30th RANS/DOUS
1 30th RANS/DOU
1 30th SW/CP
1 30th SW/PA
1 30th SW/SEOO
1 30th SW/XPR
1 30th SW/CCT
1 30th OSS/DOO
1 30th Technical Library
1 576th FLTS/TEE
1 576th FLTS/TEM
2 Aerospace Corporation
1 Boeing Defense & Space Group
2 ITT Federal Services Corporation
2 TRW

1 HQ USAF/XOFS
1 HQ AFSPC/HO
1 HQ AFSPC/DOSL
1 HQ USSPACECOM/SPJ330S
1 HQ USSPACECOM/HO
1 2 SWG/DOOL
1 45th SW/HO
1 SMC/HO
1 HQ NASA
1 HQ AFMC/ORS
2 Ogden ALC/LMIM
1 JIC/ODT
1 TRW/SEDD
1 Jet Propulsion Laboratory
1 PA-MSB, Kennedy Space Center
1 KSC Library
2 Orbital Sciences Corp

As of: 3 February 200…

# FOREWORD

This is the official registry of all major launch operations conducted from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. The vehicles are presented in chronological order beginning with the first launch on 16 December 1958. Launch dates reflect Vandenberg local time.

The information is further grouped into two matrixes titled: "ANNUAL LAUNCH SUMMARY BY BOOSTER" and "ANNUAL LAUNCH SUMMARY BY COMMAND." Two additional items contained in this document are a "LAUNCH FACILITY GUIDE" and a "GLOSSARY."

In the main chronology section, the two columns reporting cumulative numbers by booster and …

GLOSSARY

ABRES Advanced Ballistic Reentry System
ABRV Advanced Ballistic Reentry Vehicle (Formerly LBRV)
ACC Air Combat Command (Strategic Air Command [SAC] prior to 1 June 1992.)
ACE Advanced Control Experiment
ADC Aerospace Defense Command
AE Atmosphere Explorer
AEC Atomic Energy Commission
AFMC Air Force Materiel Command (Air Force Systems Command [AFSC] prior to 1 July 1992.)
AFSC Air Force Systems Command (Air Research & Development Command [ARDC] prior to 1 Apr 1961.)
AFSPC Air Force Space Command
AMARV Advanced Maneuverable Reentry Vehicle
AMROC American Rocket Company
ANT Advanced…

DT&E Development Test & Evaluation
DT&E PHASE I Development Test & Evaluation (Missile Functional Performance [Peacekeeper])
DT&E PHASE II Development Test & Evaluation (Missile Reentry Vehicle Capabilities and Silo Intergradation [Peacekeeper])
DUAL LAUNCH The launch of two missiles one after another

EOS Earth Observation System
ERCS Emergency Rocket Communications System (494L)
EXOSAT X-Ray Observatory Satellite
FAST Fast Auroral Snapshot Explorer
FDE Force Development Evaluation (Replace the term OT PHASE II testing)
FOT Follow-on Operational Test (Replaced by OT PH…

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KOMPSAT Korea Multi-Purpose Satellite

LAGEOS Laser Geodynamic Satellite

LANDSAT Earth Resources Satellite

LBRV Large Ballistic Reentry Vehicle (See ABRV)

LE Launch Emplacement

LF Launch Facility

LLL Lawrence Livermore Laboratory

LLV-1 Lockheed Launch Vehicle 1. (Became Lockheed Martin Launch Vehicle, and in Sept 97 was renamed Athena.)

LM Lockheed Martin (Corporation)

MACSAT Multiple Access Communications Satellite

MAGSAT Magnetic Field Measurement Satellite

MaST Maneuvering Systems Technology

MDA McDonnell Douglas Aerospace

MINT Miniaturized Instrumented Nose Tip

MOD Moderniz…

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 …

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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 …