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  • Vandenberg supports missile defense tracking test

    The central coast skies lit up once more as Team V successfully launched a space launch vehicle, the Chimera target launch vehicle, which is a modified Minuteman booster vehicle with a simplified target payload Tuesday night at 11:57 p.m. from North Vandenberg. The launch was part of an exercise

  • New safety chief plans for ORI success

    Safety is an important part of Vandenberg's mission, whether it's launching rockets and missiles or mobilizing for deployment. Lt. Col. Craig Bomberg, 30th Space Wing chief of safety, recently assumed command and began preparing for a whole new world of safety as well as Vandenberg's upcoming

  • Mission success short-changed without CPTS

    Money makes the world go round. Vandenberg's mission is launching missiles and putting satellites into orbit around the world. Without the money budgeted by and distributed through the 30th Comptroller Squadron, nothing would leave earth to orbit the world. "We fund the 30th Space Wing launch

  • Missile successfully launches from Vandenberg

    A Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile configured with a National Nuclear Security Administration, or NNSA, test assembly was launched from North Vandenberg today at 1:01 a.m. The launch was an operational test to determine the weapon system's reliability and accuracy. The missile's

  • Team V member marks 40 years of service

    In December 1958, Vandenberg launched its first ballistic missile, the medium-range Thor, and by 1966 the base had refurbished a facility that became the first Titan launch complex. Many people have come and gone from Vandenberg since 1966, but one face has remained and probably will for some time

  • Vandenberg prepares for Minuteman III launch, 40 years after maiden flight

    Vandenberg plans to launch a Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile here on Aug. 13, almost 40 years after its maiden flight. The Minuteman weapon system, a revolutionary concept and an extraordinary technical achievement, was conceived in the late 1950s and the Minuteman I was deployed in

  • CAP cadets learn Air Force, Vandenberg mission

    Civil Air Patrol cadets from across the U.S. converged on Vandenberg July 20-26 for an Air Force Space Command familiarization course. The cadets toured facilities around the base, including the ICBM Heritage Museum, Space Launch Complex-3, the 576th Flight Test Squadron and 30th Security Forces

  • The Space Link

    Finding a fleeting enemy in Iraq's vast deserts or the rugged mountains of Afghanistan is no easy task for coalition ground forces. And when the enemy hears a warplane overhead, they run away and hide, taking advantage of the knowledge of the land in which they fight. But coalition forces have a

  • TDDEC celebrates 50 years of bringing training to life

    As Vandenberg celebrates its 50th anniversary, one unit here is quietly and humbly doing the same. The Training Device Design and Engineering Center was assigned its first building on Cooke AFB on July 1, 1957, when it was called the Training Aids Shop; however, it didn't begin building training

  • SFS goes unmanned over Vandenberg

    Everyday thousands of Team Vandenberg members come together and work as a single force to further space power on California's central coast. It takes exactly one unauthorized personnel in a critical area during a launch window to shut the operation down and none to put it back on track. This isn't a

 

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