The Vandenberg Air Force Base.
Vandenberg Air Force Base.
But SpaceX has
always intended to land rockets back at its Vandenberg facilities, Space Launch Complex 4(SLC-4 for short).
DART mission, $69 million contract,
will blast off aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California in June 2021.
The United Launch Alliance, which built the Delta IV Heavy rocket that will launch the satellite,
was aiming for a Jan. 6 launch from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base.
Real estate at Vandenberg is limited,
and as such the Falcon 9 first stage must land a mere 1,400 feet(430 meters) from where it lifts off, which adds a degree of difficulty to the landing.
The treaty may have some implications for missile defense programs, but on the whole it is written in such a way as to create space for current and planned missile defense programs, including language that exempts interceptors from the definition of
an ICBM[bold mine-DL] and the provision to“grandfather” the converted silos at Vandenberg.