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Vandenberg officials tour Cal Poly’s miniature satellite program

By   /  Friday, April 1st, 2016  /  Central Coast, Latest news, Technology  /  Comments Off on Vandenberg officials tour Cal Poly’s miniature satellite program

Vandenberg Air Force Base officials met with staff and students from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo’s PolySat program April 1. The program makes miniature satellites for research missions that are then launched in excess payload spaces of larger satellites. Cal Poly Aerospace Engineering Professor Jordi Puig-Suari created the program in 1999 and gave a tour Read More →

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Minuteman 3 missile launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base

By   /  Friday, February 26th, 2016  /  Latest news  /  Comments Off on Minuteman 3 missile launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base

The U.S. Air Force conducted its second intercontinental ballistic missile test from Vandenberg Air Force Base in a week Feb. 25. An unarmed Minuteman 3 launched at 11:01 p.m. from Vandenberg on Feb. 25 only five days after the U.S. launched another Minuteman 3. The missile traveled about 4,200 miles and hit a target near Read More →

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Spacecraft set to land near Lompoc

By   /  Tuesday, October 14th, 2014  /  Central Coast, Latest news, Top Stories  /  Comments Off on Spacecraft set to land near Lompoc

An unmanned space plane resembling a miniature space shuttle is expected to end a nearly two-year classified mission with a not-so-secret landing at Vandenberg Air Force Base near Lompoc, perhaps as early as Oct. 14. One of two X-37B robotic space planes in the Air Force fleet, the California landing may be one of the Read More →