Retired 🇺🇸United States
Space Launch Complex 1W
A launch pad at Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA.56 launches have flown from it since February 1959, 45 of 56 successfully.
Launches
56
Success rate
80.4% 45/56
Failures
11
First flight
1959-02-28
Latest flight
1971-12-14
Busiest year
1962 10 flights
Fastest turnaround
13d 1h 26m
Location
Pad record
- Coordinates
- 34.7572° N
120.6303° W - Status
- Retired
- Spaceport
- Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Country
- United States
- Pad operator
- United States Air Force
- LL2 pad tally
- 56 upstream count
- Reference
- Wikipedia
About this pad
Space Launch Complex 1 West (SLC-1W) was a launch pad at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, United States. It was built in 1958 for the never activated 75th Strategic Missile Squadron for Thor Agena A launches.
Vehicles flown
6 typesLaunches per year
decided flights1959Peak 1962, 10 launches1971
Orbits delivered
3 destinationsLow Earth Orbit 44Polar Orbit 5Sun-Synchronous Orbit 1
Flight record
56 flights| Date | Mission | Vehicle | Operator | Orbit | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1971-12-14 | Thorad SLV-2G Agena D | Poppy 9A,B,C,D | Thorad SLV-2G Agena D | – | Low Earth Orbit | Success |
| 1971-10-17 | Thorad SLV-2G Agena D | ASTEX | Thorad SLV-2G Agena D | – | Polar Orbit | Success |
| 1971-07-16 | Thorad SLV-2H Agena D | Strawman 4 | Thorad SLV-2H Agena D | – | Low Earth Orbit | Success |
| 1970-08-26 | Thorad SLV-2G Agena D | Strawman 3 | Thorad SLV-2G Agena D | – | Low Earth Orbit | Success |
| 1969-09-30 | Thorad SLV-2G Agena D | Poppy 8A,B,C,D | Thorad SLV-2G Agena D | – | Low Earth Orbit | Success |
| 1969-07-31 | Thorad SLV-2G Agena D | Strawman 2 | Thorad SLV-2G Agena D | – | Low Earth Orbit | Success |
| 1968-10-05 | Thorad SLV-2G Agena D | Strawman 1 | Thorad SLV-2G Agena D | – | Low Earth Orbit | Success |
| 1967-12-09 | Thorad SLV-2G Agena D | KH-4B 2 | Thorad SLV-2G Agena D | – | Low Earth Orbit | Success |
| 1967-09-15 | Thorad SLV-2G Agena D | KH-4B 1 | Thorad SLV-2G Agena D | – | Low Earth Orbit | Success |
| 1967-06-16 | Thorad SLV-2G Agena D | KH-4A 42 | Thorad SLV-2G Agena D | – | Low Earth Orbit | Success |
| 1966-11-08 | Thorad SLV-2G Agena D | KH-4A 37 | Thorad SLV-2G Agena D | – | Low Earth Orbit | Success |
| 1966-08-09 | Thorad SLV-2G Agena D | KH-4A 35 | Thorad SLV-2G Agena D | – | Low Earth Orbit | Success |
| 1966-03-09 | Thor SLV-2A Agena D | KH-4A 30 | Thor SLV-2A Agena D | – | Low Earth Orbit | Success |
| 1965-12-24 | Thor SLV-2A Agena D | KH-4A 28 | Thor SLV-2A Agena D | – | Low Earth Orbit | Success |
| 1965-05-18 | Thor SLV-2A Agena D | KH-4A 20 | Thor SLV-2A Agena D | – | Low Earth Orbit | Success |
| 1965-03-25 | Thor SLV-2A Agena D | KH-4A 18 | Thor SLV-2A Agena D | – | Low Earth Orbit | Success |
| 1964-12-19 | Thor SLV-2A Agena D | KH-4A 15 | Thor SLV-2A Agena D | – | Low Earth Orbit | Success |
| 1964-11-02 | Thor SLV-2A Agena D | KH-4A 13 | Thor SLV-2A Agena D | – | Low Earth Orbit | Success |
| 1964-10-05 | Thor SLV-2A Agena D | KH-4A 11 | Thor SLV-2A Agena D | – | Low Earth Orbit | Success |
| 1964-08-05 | Thor SLV-2A Agena D | KH-4A 9 | Thor SLV-2A Agena D | – | Low Earth Orbit | Success |
| 1964-06-18 | Thor SLV-2 Agena D | DSAP-1 F8 & F9 | Thor SLV-2 Agena D | – | Sun-Synchronous Orbit | Success |
| 1964-04-27 | Thor SLV-2A Agena D | KH-4A 5 | Thor SLV-2A Agena D | – | Low Earth Orbit | Success |
| 1964-02-15 | Thor SLV-2A Agena D | KH-4A 3 | Thor SLV-2A Agena D | – | Low Earth Orbit | Success |
| 1963-10-29 | Thor SLV-2A Agena D | KH-5 10 | Thor SLV-2A Agena D | – | Low Earth Orbit | Success |
| 1963-08-25 | Thor SLV-2A Agena D | KH-4A 1 | Thor SLV-2A Agena D | – | Low Earth Orbit | Success |
| 1963-06-12 | Thor SLV-2A Agena D | KH-4 21 | Thor SLV-2A Agena D | – | Low Earth Orbit | Success |
| 1963-03-18 | Thor SLV-2A Agena D | KH-6 1 | Thor SLV-2A Agena D | – | Low Earth Orbit | Failure |
| 1962-11-24 | Thor DM-21 Agena-B | KH-4 15 | Thor DM-21 Agena-B | – | Low Earth Orbit | Success |
| 1962-11-05 | Thor DM-21 Agena-B | KH-4 14 | Thor DM-21 Agena-B | – | Low Earth Orbit | Success |
| 1962-10-09 | Thor DM-21 Agena-B | KH-5 7 | Thor DM-21 Agena-B | – | Low Earth Orbit | Success |
| 1962-09-17 | Thor DM-21 Agena-B | KH-4 12 | Thor DM-21 Agena-B | – | Low Earth Orbit | Success |
| 1962-07-28 | Thor DM-21 Agena-B | KH-4 9 | Thor DM-21 Agena-B | – | Low Earth Orbit | Success |
| 1962-06-23 | Thor DM-21 Agena-B | KH-4 6 | Thor DM-21 Agena-B | – | Low Earth Orbit | Success |
| 1962-06-02 | Thor DM-21 Agena-B | KH-4 5 | Thor DM-21 Agena-B | – | Low Earth Orbit | Success |
| 1962-04-29 | Thor DM-21 Agena-B | KH-4 3 | Thor DM-21 Agena-B | – | Low Earth Orbit | Success |
| 1962-02-27 | Thor DM-21 Agena-B | KH-4 1 | Thor DM-21 Agena-B | – | Low Earth Orbit | Success |
| 1962-01-13 | Thor DM-21 Agena-B | Discoverer 37 | Thor DM-21 Agena-B | – | Low Earth Orbit | Failure |
| 1961-12-12 | Thor DM-21 Agena-B | Discoverer 36 & OSCAR 1 | Thor DM-21 Agena-B | – | – | Success |
| 1961-11-15 | Thor DM-21 Agena-B | Discoverer 35 | Thor DM-21 Agena-B | – | – | Success |
| 1961-10-13 | Thor DM-21 Agena-B | Discoverer 32 | Thor DM-21 Agena-B | – | – | Success |
| 1961-08-30 | Thor DM-21 Agena-B | Discoverer 29 | Thor DM-21 Agena-B | – | – | Success |
| 1961-08-04 | Thor DM-21 Agena-B | Discoverer 28 | Thor DM-21 Agena-B | – | – | Failure |
| 1961-07-21 | Thor DM-21 Agena-B | KH-5 4 | Thor DM-21 Agena-B | – | Low Earth Orbit | Failure |
| 1961-06-08 | Thor DM-21 Agena-B | KH-5 3 | Thor DM-21 Agena-B | – | Low Earth Orbit | Failure |
| 1961-03-30 | Thor DM-21 Agena-B | Discoverer 22 | Thor DM-21 Agena-B | – | – | Failure |
| 1961-02-17 | Thor DM-21 Agena-B | KH-5 1 | Thor DM-21 Agena-B | – | Low Earth Orbit | Success |
| 1960-12-07 | Thor DM-21 Agena-B | Discoverer 18 | Thor DM-21 Agena-B | – | Low Earth Orbit | Success |
| 1960-10-26 | Thor DM-21 Agena-B | Discoverer 16 | Thor DM-21 Agena-B | – | Low Earth Orbit | Failure |
| 1960-08-18 | Thor Agena A | Discoverer 14 | Thor Agena A | – | Low Earth Orbit | Success |
| 1960-06-29 | Thor Agena A | Discoverer 12 | Thor Agena A | – | Low Earth Orbit | Failure |
| 1960-02-04 | Thor Agena A | Discoverer 9 | Thor Agena A | – | Low Earth Orbit | Failure |
| 1959-11-07 | Thor Agena A | Discoverer 7 | Thor Agena A | – | Low Earth Orbit | Success |
| 1959-08-13 | Thor Agena A | Discoverer 5 | Thor Agena A | – | Polar Orbit | Success |
| 1959-06-03 | Thor Agena A | Discoverer 3 | Thor Agena A | – | Polar Orbit | Failure |
| 1959-04-13 | Thor Agena A | Discoverer 2 | Thor Agena A | – | Polar Orbit | Success |
| 1959-02-28 | Thor Agena A | Discoverer 1 | Thor Agena A | – | Polar Orbit | Failure |
Pad records from Launch Library 2. Flights and company identity fromSpace Index. How the numbers are derived.