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Complex 576 A
Also Known As: See launch complex highlights
Systems- Atlas D
- Atlas E
- Atlas F
- Atlas Burner 2
Other Programs:
- Nike Zeus Targets
- Advanced Ballistic Re-Entry System (ABRES)
- Simulated Boost Glide Vehicle (SBGRV)
- Re-entry Vehicle Test Observable (RFTO)
- Low Observable Re-entry Vehicle (LORV)
- Reduced Exo-atmospheric Cross Section (REX)
- Maneuverable Ballistic Re-entry Vehicle (MBRV)
- Penetration Aids
- Target Vehicle Experimental (TVX)
- Re-entry Measurement Program (RMP)
- Low Angle Re-entry (LAR)
- Advanced Control Experiment (ACE)
- Supplementary Flight Testing (SFT)
- Orbiting Vehicle (OV)
- Space Experiment Support Program (SESP)
- P72-1 Payload
Cost: Not available
Launch Complex Highlights
- 1959 - Three launch pads built for Atlas D
- Gantries very similar to Cape Canaveral Launch Complexes 11, 12, 13, 14, except that the Vandenberg gantries were simpler A-frame gantries.
- Pad 576 A-1
- Also known as 4300A-1, ABRES A-1, BMRS A01
- February 1959 - First Atlas D arrived
- 26 October 1962 - First launch, Atlas D
- 30 June 1966 - Last launch, Atlas D
- Total launches - 18 Atlas D
- 19 May 1967 - First launch, Atlas F
- 8 September 1976 - Last launch, Atlas F
- Total launches - 16 Atlas F
- 18 April 1968 - Sole launch of Atlas E
- 2 October 1972 - Sole launch of Atlas Burner 2
- Pad 576 A-2
- Also known as 4300 A-2, BMRS A-2
- 9 September 1959 - Sole Atlas D IOC launch
- 5 August 1965 - First launch, Atlas F
- 7 August 1971 - Last launch, Atlas F
- Total launches - 13 Atlas F
- Pad 576 A-3
- Also known as 4300 A-3, BMRS A-3
- 26 January 1960 - First launch, Atlas D
- 10 June 1965 - Last launch, Atlas D
- Total launches - 10 Atlas D
- 13 February 1967 - First launch, Atlas F
- 13 October 1974 - Last launch, Atlas F
- Total launches - 21 Atlas F
- 6 March 1968 - First launch, Atlas E
- 27 April 1968 - Last launch, Atlas E
- Total launches - 2 Atlas E
- Total launches - 22
- 1989 - American Rocket, Inc. (AMROC) leased BMRS A-3 from the U.S. Air Force. AMROC made some modifications in the lower flooring of the service tower to accommodate its commercial launch vehicle.
- 5 October 1989 - Single launch by AMROC which failed.
- All three pads have been decommissioned and stripped of equipment
