Rocket launch scheduled today from Vandenburg AFB California. 1:08 PM Pacific time.

Vandenburg AFB Rocket Launch Schedule ^ | Me

[Pajamajan]

Launch of a Delta IV Heavy rocket is scheduled from Vandenburg AFB at 1:08 PM (Pacific) TODAY. Largest rocket they've ever launched.

[Pajamajan]

If you live in Cali, you will be able to see this.

More info about the rocket/what it's carrying-exc.. is available at

http://www.spacearchive.info/vafbsked.htm

Interesting information at the site. It also has dates for future rocket launches.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Mission: NROL-49
Launch Vehicle: Delta 4 Heavy built by United Launch Alliance (ULA)
Launch Date/Time: Thursday, 20 January 2011 / 1:10 p.m. PST (4:10 p.m. EST/2108 GMT) *
Payload: Classified spy satellite (KH-11 series) for the U.S. National
Reconnaissance Office
Launch site: Space Launch Complex 6 (SLC-6), Vandenberg AFB, California
Webcast links: http://www.ulalaunch.com/site/pages/Multimedia_Webcast.shtml and
http://spaceflightnow.com/delta/d352/status.html
(Broadcast of the launch begins 25 minutes prior to launch.)

*Note: NEW LAUNCH TIME! The target launch time is being adjusted by two-and-a-half minutes to 1:10:30 p.m. Pacific (4:10:30 p.m. EST; 2110:30 GMT). This change was prompted by the COLA, or collision avoidance safety measures. COLA cutouts ensure the rocket isn’t launched on a course that would take it too close to another object already in orbit.

[Jack Hydrazine]

World Wide Launch Schedule
http://spaceflightnow.com/tracking/index.html

[Jack Hydrazine]

[Osage Orange]

Cool pic!

[blackdog]

This is to show Hu we can launch missiles off our california coastline just as easy as he can.

[Yaelle]

Will we see this from the flat lands or do we need to go up on a hill facing north? (la)

[null and void]

*ouch*

[Pajamajan]

Imagine you’d get the best view if you went up a hill, but it’s a big rocket, so you should be able to see it going up from the flat lands too.

[Blogatron]

Which is more grammatically correct, Hu or Hum?

[Pajamajan]

Thanks for the cool pics, updated launch info, and links.

[ResearchMonkey]

The fog is burning off fast here in the Central Valley. I hope I can grab a glimpse of the flare.

It’s a 45 mile view from here.

[tet68]

18 minutes to launch coverage.

[surfer]

Is it me or is real life finally catching up with the Thunderbirds? Now we just need that ricochet sound everytime someone fires a gun...LOL

[tet68]

4 minutes to launch coverage.

[tet68]

2 minutes to coverage.

[Christian Engineer Mass]

[windcliff]

Thunderbirds Are Go!!!

[norton]

coverage where?

[eastforker]

Any live feed for launch??