Missile Launch! Vandenberg AFB 9/25/10

A one minute exposure of saturday's missile launch. Next time I will just videotape the launch in HD and see how that comes out.
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I get a newletter/emails from SpaceArchive.com which sent out updates and lets people know when launches are about to take place. Usually, military launches do not give a time when they launch, just a date. Commercial launches usually have a time when the launch takes place. More often than not, the launches are delayed for various technical reasons or if a vehicle (car, boat, airplane) happens to wander into the launch perimeter.

http://www.spacearchive.info/vafbsked.htm

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• minotaur
• iv
• vandenberg
• rocket
• missile
• defense
• satellite
• army
• secret
• spy
• sat
• u.s.
• military

[007tallguy]

whoah...... after the reaction you had from the crop dusting dude, you filmed some military secrets..??? what's that strange van doing parked just down the road from your place..? just kiddin', lol.

that's a really interesting shot. i kinda think the light pollution adds to the photo.

[taofledermaus]

@007tallguy This launch was pretty well known before hand and I had gotten a launch alert a few weeks before from spacearchive. I almost forgot to go out and shoot it. It would really be neat to see a shuttle launch though!

[ODgr33n]

Nice to see the decommissioned Peacekeeper's finally being used for something.

[taofledermaus]

@ODgr33n For once our tax dollars are doing something good!

[ryukenosuke]

That's pretty wicked. You live around some interesting things. Offensively driving police officers.  A helicopter crop duster. A missile launch site. I wonder what's next.

[taofledermaus]

@ryukenosuke Ask anyone around here and they'd say this place is boring. You gotta look hard to find cool stuff, or get lucky!

[billhaley1868]

wow, jealous of your backyard! Mine is boring as shit!

[xox945]

damn that's cool

[TheHiddenPart]

OMG THEY'RE COMING!!! THE MISSILES, THEY DO NOTHING!! 

[santoro2020]

Hey I got some nice videos coming but I found out this problem on my LED TV and I will record a straight and still line and see wtf is up with it because its less than 3 months old and my family notices it whenever we watch something. But interested to watch in slow-mo.