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| Launch Facility 10
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| Coordinates |
34 ° 51 '2 " N , 120 ° 35' 38" W Coordinates: 34 ° 51 '2 " N , 120 ° 35' 38" W.34.8506 -120.594
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| Type |
Missile silo
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| operator
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United States Air Force
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| Missiles |
Minuteman
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| First start |
July 12, 1987 (Minuteman 3 FOT GT123GM-1)
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| Total starts |
19th
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Vandenberg AFB Launch Facility 10 (LF-10) is a missile silo at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California , USA . The silo has been used for research and test launches of the Minuteman 3 missile since the late 1980s .
Start list
| date
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Time ( UTC )
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Missile type
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payload
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Remarks
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| July 12, 1987
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|
Minuteman 3
|
FOT GT123GM-1
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Failure
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| October 27, 1988
|
15:28
|
Minuteman 3
|
FOT GT130GM
|
Test flight
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| March 7, 1989
|
08:26
|
Minuteman 3
|
FOT GT133GM
|
Test flight
|
| November 6, 1989
|
|
Minuteman 3
|
FOT GT136GM
|
Test flight
|
| 2nd July 1991
|
|
Minuteman 3
|
FOT GT143GM
|
Test flight
|
| May 5th 1992
|
|
Minuteman 3
|
FOT GT147GM-1
|
Test flight
|
| June 26, 1996
|
12:17
|
Minuteman 3
|
FOT GT162GM
|
Test flight
|
| June 18, 1997
|
10:01
|
Minuteman 3
|
FOT GT165GM
|
Test flight
|
| June 24, 1998
|
12:46
|
Minuteman 3
|
FOT GT168GM
|
Test flight
|
| August 20, 1999
|
08:45
|
Minuteman 3
|
RCT-1 GT170GM / RRF-6
|
Test flight
|
| June 9, 2000
|
08:01
|
Minuteman 3
|
FOT GT172GM
|
Test flight
|
| February 7, 2001
|
09:28
|
Minuteman 3
|
GT175GB
|
Test flight
|
| April 8, 2002
|
09:29
|
Minuteman 3
|
GT178GM
|
Test flight
|
| September 10, 2003
|
11:31
|
Minuteman 3
|
GT181GM
|
Test flight (originally planned for May)
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| June 23, 2004
|
08:32
|
Minuteman 3
|
GT185GM
|
Test flight (originally planned for February)
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| July 21, 2005
|
08:01
|
Minuteman 3
|
SERV-1
|
Test flight (originally planned for June)
|
| February 16, 2006
|
08:01
|
Minuteman 3
|
SERV-3 Mk 21
|
|
| February 7, 2007
|
08:14
|
Minuteman 3
|
GT-193GM 1 zip
|
Test flight
|
| May 22, 2008
|
03:04
|
Minuteman 3
|
GT-197GM
|
Test flight
|
| June 16, 2010
|
03:01
|
Minuteman 3
|
Glory Trip 200GM-1
|
Test flight with an inert warhead, 200th flight of a Minuteman III
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| June 22, 2011
|
13:34
|
Minuteman 3
|
GT-204GM
|
Test flight
|
swell
Individual evidence
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↑ Missile successfully launches from Vandenberg ( Memento from May 31, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
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^ Vandenberg conducts Minuteman III flight test ( Memento from June 28, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
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↑ 200th Test Launch of a Minuteman III Missile
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↑ http://spacelaunchnews.blogspot.com/2011/06/minuteman-iii-icbm-launches-from.html
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^ Northrop Grumman-Led ICBM Prime Integration Team Participates in Test Launch of Minuteman III Missile
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