http://www.cnn.com reports: > Countdown begins for crucial U.S. missile test > Anti-nuclear protesters said they would try to stop Friday night's > critical test of a U.S. anti-missile system 144 miles above the Pacific > Ocean. > Sometime between 7-11 p.m. PDT, a modified Minuteman II target missile > will be launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, > followed 20 minutes later by a second "kill vehicle" missile fired from > the Kwajalein Atoll in the central Pacific, 4,300 miles away. > FULL STORY http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/07/07/missile.defense.02/index.html http://mocc.vafb.af.mil/launchsched.asp shows this launch and, on Aug 1, a big Titan IV. If I recall correctly, an earlier test from Vandenburg was responsible for a good deal of interesting sky viewing on the West Coast. Cheers. Walter Nissen wnissen@tfn.net -81.8637, 41.3735, 256m elevation --- Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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