Location

Pad record

Coordinates: 34.7394° N
120.6192° W
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Status: Retired
Spaceport: Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Country: United States
Pad operator: United States Air Force
LL2 pad tally: 9 upstream count
Reference: Wikipedia

About this pad

Launch Complex 576 is a group of rocket launch pads at Vandenberg Space Force Base. The pads were used from 1959 until 1971 to launch SM-65 Atlas missiles. The site was also known as Complex ABRES. Pads in Area 576 include 576A-1, 576A-2 and 576A-3, 576B-1, 576B-2 and 576B-3, 576-C, 576-D, 576-E, OSTF-1 and OSTF-2.

Who launches from here

1 operator

Northrop Grumman 9

Vehicles flown

6 types

Minotaur 3 Minotaur-C 2110 2 Minotaur-C 1110 1 Minotaur-C 2210 1 Minotaur-C 3110 1 Minotaur-C 3210 1

Launches per year

decided flights

1994Peak 1998, 2 launches2017

Orbits delivered

4 destinations

Low Earth Orbit 4Sun-Synchronous Orbit 3Medium Earth Orbit 1Polar Orbit 1

Flight record

9 flights

Date	Mission	Vehicle	Operator	Orbit	Outcome
2017-10-31	Minotaur-C (Taurus XL) \| 6 x SkySat & 4 x Dove	Minotaur	Northrop Grumman	Sun-Synchronous Orbit	Success
2009-02-24	Taurus 3110 \| OCO	Minotaur-C 3110	Northrop Grumman	Low Earth Orbit	Failure
2004-05-20	Taurus 3210 \| Formosat-2	Minotaur-C 3210	Northrop Grumman	Medium Earth Orbit	Success
2001-09-21	Taurus 2110 \| OrbView-4	Minotaur-C 2110	Northrop Grumman	Sun-Synchronous Orbit	Failure
2000-03-12	Taurus 1110 \| MTI	Minotaur-C 1110	Northrop Grumman	Polar Orbit	Success
1999-12-21	Taurus 2110 \| Arirang-1 & ACRIMSat	Minotaur-C 2110	Northrop Grumman	Sun-Synchronous Orbit	Success
1998-10-03	Minotaur \| NROL-8	Minotaur	Northrop Grumman	Low Earth Orbit	Success
1998-02-10	Taurus 2210 \| GFO	Minotaur-C 2210	Northrop Grumman	Low Earth Orbit	Success
1994-03-13	Minotaur \| STEP 0 & DARPASAT	Minotaur	Northrop Grumman	Low Earth Orbit	Success

Pad records from Launch Library 2. Flights and company identity fromSpace Index. How the numbers are derived.

Space Launch Complex 576E