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The host unit at Vandenberg SFB is the Space Launch Delta 30 (SLD 30). The unit oversees the Western Range, a vast testing area stretching from Vandenberg's coast westward to the Western Pacific, including sites in Hawaii. This range facilitates Department of Defense space and missile testing, including launches that place satellites into near ...
LGM-25C Titan II, This was a test and training facility and was the site of the first Titan II launch at Vandenberg Air Force Base. Most usage pre-1969. Most usage pre-1969. [ 7 ] [ 11 ]
Vandenberg Air Force Base. 15 March 2013. "Space Control and Space Surveillance". Factsheets. STRATCOM. Archived from the original on 28 June 2016. JFCC Space, through its Joint Space Operations Center (JSpOC), detects, tracks, and identifies all artificial objects in Earth orbit
Vandenberg SFB, California (2000–present) March ARB, California (1997–2000) [3] Ontario ANGS, California (1984–1997) [4] Compton, California (1948–1951) as the 148th Aircraft Control and Warming Squadron. Oklahoma Air Force Station, OK (1 May 1951 – 31 January 1953) Oklahoma Air Force Station, OK.
This is a list of installations operated by the United States Space Force (USSF), located within the United States and abroad. Locations where the Space Force has a notable presence but do not operate the facility will also be listed, as the service branch develops.
The complex was then refurbished to accommodate the Martin Marietta Titan 34D.Seven Titan 34Ds were launched between 20 June 1983, and 6 November 1988. [8] SLC-4E hosted one of the most dramatic launch accidents in US history when a Titan 34D-9 carrying a KH-9 photoreconnaissance satellite exploded a few hundred feet above the pad on 18 April 1986.
The 1st Delta Operations Squadron (1 DOS) is a United States Space Force unit responsible for providing operations support to Space Delta 1 by serving as its headquarters staff.
It is the fourth launch site at Vandenberg to support the Minotaur family, after TP-01, SLC-576E, and LF-06. Minotaur launches from SLC-8 are controlled from the Integrated Processing Facility (IPF) at the neighboring Space Launch Complex 6 , which itself was originally built for Space Shuttle payload processing.