Retired 🇺🇸United States
Launch Complex A
A launch pad at Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA.1 launch have flown from it since December 1961, 1 of 1 successfully.
Launches
1
Success rate
100.0% 1/1
First flight
1961-12-04
Latest flight
1961-12-04
Busiest year
1961 1 flight
Location
Pad record
- Coordinates
- 34.6638° N
120.6022° W - Status
- Retired
- Spaceport
- Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Country
- United States
- LL2 pad tally
- 1 upstream count
- Reference
- Wikipedia
About this pad
PALC-A at the Vandenberg Air Force Base, is a launch complex that was used for a number of sounding rocket launches between 1959 and 1966.
Vehicles flown
1 typeLaunches per year
decided flights1961Peak 1961, 1 launch1961
Orbits delivered
1 destinationSuborbital 1
Flight record
1 flight| Date | Mission | Vehicle | Operator | Orbit | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1961-12-04 | Blue Scout Jr | Blue Scout Jr. O-2 | Blue Scout Jr | – | Suborbital | Success |
Pad records from Launch Library 2. Flights and company identity fromSpace Index. How the numbers are derived.