Active 🇺🇸United States
Vandenberg Space Force Base
A launch pad at Air launch to orbit.22 launches have flown from it since June 1994, 20 of 22 successfully.
Launches
22
Success rate
90.9% 20/22
Failures
2
First flight
1994-06-27
Latest flight
2021-06-13
Busiest year
1996 4 flights
Fastest turnaround
6d 6h 6m
Location
Pad record
- Coordinates
- 34.7328° N
120.5681° W - Status
- Active
- Spaceport
- Air launch to orbit
- Country
- United States
- LL2 pad tally
- 22 upstream count
- Reference
- Wikipedia
Who launches from here
1 operatorVehicles flown
3 typesLaunches per year
decided flights1994Peak 1996, 4 launches2021
Orbits delivered
2 destinationsSun-Synchronous Orbit 2Low Earth Orbit 1
Flight record
22 flights| Date | Mission | Vehicle | Operator | Orbit | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-06-13 | Pegasus XL | Odyssey (TacRL-2) | Pegasus XL | Northrop Grumman | Sun-Synchronous Orbit | Success |
| 2013-06-28 | Pegasus XL | Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) | Pegasus XL | Northrop Grumman | Sun-Synchronous Orbit | Success |
| 2007-04-25 | Pegasus XL | Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM) | Pegasus XL | Northrop Grumman | – | Success |
| 2006-03-28 | Pegasus XL | Space Technology 5 (ST-5) (3x microsats) | Pegasus XL | Northrop Grumman | – | Success |
| 2006-03-22 | Pegasus XL | ST-5 FWD | Pegasus XL | Northrop Grumman | Low Earth Orbit | Success |
| 2005-04-15 | Pegasus XL | Demonstration for Autonomous Rendezvous Technology (DART) | Pegasus XL | Northrop Grumman | – | Success |
| 2003-08-13 | Pegasus XL | SCISAT-1 | Pegasus XL | Northrop Grumman | – | Success |
| 2003-06-26 | Pegasus XL | OrbView-3 | Pegasus XL | Northrop Grumman | – | Success |
| 2000-06-07 | Pegasus XL | Tri-Services Experiments Platform-5 (TSX-5) | Pegasus XL | Northrop Grumman | – | Success |
| 1999-05-18 | Pegasus XL HAPS | MUBLCOM & TERRIERS | Pegasus XL HAPS | Northrop Grumman | – | Success |
| 1999-03-05 | Pegasus XL | Wide Field Infrared Explorer (WIRE) | Pegasus XL | Northrop Grumman | – | Success |
| 1998-12-06 | Pegasus XL | Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite (SWAS) | Pegasus XL | Northrop Grumman | – | Success |
| 1998-04-02 | Pegasus XL | Transition Region and Coronal Explorer (TRACE) | Pegasus XL | Northrop Grumman | – | Success |
| 1998-02-26 | Pegasus XL | Broadband Advanced Technologies Satellite (BATSAT/Teledesic T1) & Student Nitric Oxide Explorer (SNOE) | Pegasus XL | Northrop Grumman | – | Success |
| 1997-08-01 | Pegasus XL | OrbView-2 | Pegasus XL | Northrop Grumman | – | Success |
| 1996-08-21 | Pegasus XL | Fast Auroral Snapshot Explorer (FAST) | Pegasus XL | Northrop Grumman | – | Success |
| 1996-07-02 | Pegasus XL | Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) | Pegasus XL | Northrop Grumman | – | Success |
| 1996-05-17 | Pegasus Hybrid | Miniature Sensor Technology Integration 3 (MSTI-3) | Pegasus Hybrid | Northrop Grumman | – | Success |
| 1996-03-09 | Pegasus XL | REX II | Pegasus XL | Northrop Grumman | – | Success |
| 1995-06-22 | Pegasus XL | Space Test Experiments Platform-3 (STEP-3) | Pegasus XL | Northrop Grumman | – | Failure |
| 1995-04-03 | Pegasus Hybrid | Orbcomm F1 - F2 & OrbView-1 | Pegasus Hybrid | Northrop Grumman | – | Success |
| 1994-06-27 | Pegasus XL | Space Test Experiments Platform 1 (STEP-1) | Pegasus XL | Northrop Grumman | – | Failure |
Pad records from Launch Library 2. Flights and company identity fromSpace Index. How the numbers are derived.