visibility Similar

Expedition 46 Launch (NHQ201512150012)

A SpaceX Falcon 9 CRS-19 rocket launched at Cape Canaveral

Apollo Boilerplate 12- Liftoff. NASA public domain image colelction.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. — Viewed from the top of the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft roars off the launch pad aboard an Atlas V rocket spewing flames and smoke. Liftoff was on time at 2 p.m. EST from Complex 41 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. This was the third launch attempt in as many days after scrubs due to weather concerns. The compact, 1,050-pound piano-sized probe will get a boost from a kick-stage solid propellant motor for its journey to Pluto. New Horizons will be the fastest spacecraft ever launched, reaching lunar orbit distance in just nine hours and passing Jupiter 13 months later. The New Horizons science payload, developed under direction of Southwest Research Institute, includes imaging infrared and ultraviolet spectrometers, a multi-color camera, a long-range telescopic camera, two particle spectrometers, a space-dust detector and a radio science experiment. The dust counter was designed and built by students at the University of Colorado, Boulder. The launch at this time allows New Horizons to fly past Jupiter in early 2007 and use the planet’s gravity as a slingshot toward Pluto. The Jupiter flyby trims the trip to Pluto by as many as five years and provides opportunities to test the spacecraft’s instruments and flyby capabilities on the Jupiter system. New Horizons could reach the Pluto system as early as mid-2015, conducting a five-month-long study possible only from the close-up vantage of a spacecraft. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett KSC-06pd0095

CAPE APOLLO 8 LAUNCH. NASA public domain image colelction.

Launch of a NATO-III missile - U.S. National Archives Public Domain photograph

A Trident II (D-5) missile clears a flat pad during the Navy's eighth development test flight. The missile is designed for submerged firing from the ninth nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine, USS TENNESSEE (SSBN 734). The first eight Ohio class ballistic missile submarines will be backfitted to carry the Trident II missile in accodance with regularly scheduled shipyard availability. Note: Eighth view in a series of eight

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- A remote wide-angle camera captures liftoff of the Delta II rocket carrying the Gravity Probe B spacecraft from Space Launch Complex 2 on Vandenberg AFB, Calif., at 9:57:24 a.m. PDT. KSC-04pd1082

NPP Delta II Launch (201110280003HQ)

code Related

Team Vandenberg successfully launches an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. The purpose of this launch was to test the reliability and accuracy of Air Force weapon systems

Team Vandenberg successfully launches an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. The purpose of this launch was to test the reliability and accuracy of Air Force weapon systems

A Peace Keeper Intercontinental Ballistic Missile launches from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, as part of the follow-up test and evaluation program. This image is from the January 1999 edition of AIRMAN Magazine highlighting the Expeditionary Aerospace Force

US Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Joe Hogler and USAF Captain Craig Blackwell, 30th Range Squadron, Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, prepare to countdown for the launch of a Minuteman III missile. The missile was launched for a force development mission that let Space Command verify the weapons system

A Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) is test fired from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, to Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands, during exercise Global Shield

A left side view of an AGM-86 air-launched cruise missile in flight near Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, during an Integrated Weapon System test

At 0101 hours a Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missile launches from a North Vandenberg launch site

A left side view of a B-52 Stratofortress aircraft releasing an AGM-86 air-launched cruise missile near Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. This flight mission is part of an Integrated Weapon System test

Minuteman III launches from Vandenberg

Team Vandenberg successfully launches an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. The purpose of this launch was to test the reliability and accuracy of Air Force weapon systems

description

Summary

The original finding aid described this photograph as:

Base: Vandenberg Air Force Base

State: California (CA)

Country: United States Of America (USA)

Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Richard W. Freeland, USAF

Release Status: Released to Public

Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

Nothing Found.

label_outline

Tags

team vandenberg team vandenberg minuteman minuteman iii missile vandenberg air force base california purpose launch test reliability accuracy weapon systems ballistic missile air force intercontinental ballistic missile minuteman ballistic missile staff sergeant us air force high resolution air force weapon systems ssgt richard usaf air force base us national archives
date_range

Date

28/09/2000
place

Location

create

Source

The U.S. National Archives
link

Link

https://catalog.archives.gov/
copyright

Copyright info

No known copyright restrictions

label_outline Explore Team Vandenberg, Air Force Weapon Systems, Ssgt Richard

SSGT Chuck Hensley of the 55th Organizational Maintenance Squadron services communications equipment in the battle staff compartment of an EC-135 Stratolifter "Looking Glass" aircraft of the 2nd Airborne Command and Control Squadron, 55th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing, prior to a mission. Named "Glory Trip 143GB," the mission will be the first remote launch of a silo-housed Minuteman III missile by an aircraft based at Offutt. The missile will be launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California

Missile Maintenance Technicians from the 90th MXS/LSS stand at the opening of Minuteman III Silo, Alpha-7. Pictured are: SENIOR AIRMAN Eric Laboarde (on diveboard), STAFF SGT. Jason Bruns & STAFF SGT. Monte Reeder (in work cage)

At 7:59 am PDT the second of two unarmed Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles is successfully launched

A Minuteman III missile takes off from Launch Facility 26

Captain Rahn, a doctor assigned to the base hospital Radiology Department, studies a patient's X-ray for a possible hip fracture

Electrician's Mate 2nd Class Winston Trinidad sets the electrical plant control console for maximum engineering reliability in central control station.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Ground support equipment technicians monitor the progress as crawler-transporter 1 begins its trek to Launch Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. New jacking, equalizing and leveling, or JEL, hydraulic cylinders were installed on CT-1 and are being tested for increased load carrying capacity and reliability. The Vehicle Assembly Building is visible in the background. The Ground Systems Development and Operations Program at Kennedy continues to upgrade the crawler-transporter as part of its general maintenance. CT-1 could be available to carry a variety of launch vehicles to the launch pad. Two crawler-transporters were used to carry the mobile launcher platform and space shuttle to Launch Complex 39 for space shuttle launches for 30 years. Photo credit: NASA/Daniel Casper KSC-2013-4203

Artwork: "Minuteman ICBM Being Loaded Into a C-141, Vandenberg AFB"Artist: Winston Taylor

A reconfigured Minuteman II intercontinental ballistic missile was launched from Vandenberg AFB at 8:39 p.m. 23 June 1997. The missile, part of the Multi-Service Launch System developed by Lockheed-Martin Astronautics, deployed a payload of nine target objects in space to test sensors carried aloft by a second Minuteman II that was launched from the Kwajalein Missile Range in the south Pacific Ocean approximately 20 minutes later. It carried sensors using existing National Missile Defense technology to identify and track the nine target objects released by the Vandenberg missile. A side effect from the launch resulted in what is termed as a "twilight phenomenon," a multicolored light...

MINUTEMAN III LAUNCHES FROM VANDENBERG

SSGT Chuck Hensley of the 55th Organizational Maintenance Squadron takes notes at radio maintenance station No. 2 aboard an EC-135 Stratolifter "Looking Glass" aircraft of the 2nd Airborne Command and Control Squadron, 55th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing, prior to a mission. Named "Glory Trip 143GB," the mission will be the first remote launch of a silo-housed Minuteman III missile by an aircraft based at Offutt. The missile will be launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California

US Air Force (USAF) AIRMAN First Class (A1C) Mike Kessler takes cover behind concrete barriers during a training exercise by the 341st Security Forces Group (SFG) to recapture a missile launch facility at Malmstrom Air Force Base (AFB), Montana (MT). The 341st SFG is responsible for protecting and securing the Minuteman III missile facilities of Malmstroms 341st Space Wing, located throughout central Montana. The 341st SFG is responsible for protecting and securing the Minuteman III missile facilities of the 341st Space Wing (SW) located throughout central Montana (MT). For the exercise they are wearing Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System (MILES) and armed with KAC 5.56 mm...

Topics

team vandenberg team vandenberg minuteman minuteman iii missile vandenberg air force base california purpose launch test reliability accuracy weapon systems ballistic missile air force intercontinental ballistic missile minuteman ballistic missile staff sergeant us air force high resolution air force weapon systems ssgt richard usaf air force base us national archives