Vandenberg Air Force Base
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Vandenberg Air Force Base is an American spaceport located in California, on the Pacific coast. Because of its location it is used for launches into polar orbit; as well as missile tests over the Pacific ocean.
There are several excellent Addons modeling the base.
A history is available at Wikipedia [1]
Pads and runways
- Runway 12/30: 4572x61m, concrete, lights, ILS
- Frequencies:
- ILS: 110.1 MHz
- APP: 112.25 MHz
- ATIS: 133.125 MHz
- GND: 121.75 MHz
- TWR: 124.95 MHz
- Active launch pads:
- Launch Complex 576-E
- Space Launch Complex 8 (SLC 8), used for commercial Minotaur launches. It is known as the "California Spaceport"
- Space Launch Complex 6 (SLC 6), used for Delta IV
- Space Launch Complex 3-East (SLC 3E), used for Atlas V
- Space Launch Complex 2W (SLC 2W), used for Delta II
Charts and diagrams
- charts from skyvector.com
- airport diagram and info from http://skyvector.com/airport/VBG/Vandenberg-AFB-Airport
- Map of all launch pad coordinates
- aerial view from Wikimedia Commons
- aerial view from Wikimedia Commons
- Image Science and Analysis Laboratory, NASA-Johnson Space Center. "The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth."
- Image Science and Analysis Laboratory, NASA-Johnson Space Center. "The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth."
- Image Science and Analysis Laboratory, NASA-Johnson Space Center. "The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth."
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