Vandenberg launches Delta II carrying Italian weather sattelite

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- A Delta II rocket carrying the Thales Alenia-Space COSMO-SkyMed Satellite launched from Vandenberg on Dec. 8 at 6:31 p.m. The rocket, second of two COSMO-SkyMed launches scheduled from Vandenberg, took off from Space Launch Complex-2. The Delta II is an expendable launch, medium-lift vehicle. It carries civil and commercial payloads into low-earth, polar, geosynchronous transfer and stationary orbits. (U.S. Air Force Photo/Robert Hargreaves

Vandenberg launches Delta II carrying Italian weather sattelite

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- A Delta II rocket carrying the Thales Alenia-Space COSMO-SkyMed Satellite launched from Vandenberg on Dec. 8 at 6:31 p.m. The rocket, second of two COSMO-SkyMed launches scheduled from Vandenberg, took off from Space Launch Complex-2. The Delta II is an expendable launch, medium-lift vehicle. It carries civil and commercial payloads into low-earth, polar, geosynchronous transfer and stationary orbits. (U.S. Air Force Photo/Joe Davila

Team V launches heritage Delta II rocket, image satellite

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- A Delta II bearing the WorldView-1 spacecraft launches from Space Launch Complex-2 West at 11:35 a.m. on Sept. 18. The DigitalGloble WorldView-1 spacecraft is a weather mapping satellite launched on the Air Force's 60th anniversary. (U.S. Air Force photo/Joe Davila)

Team V launches heritage Delta II rocket, image satellite

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- A Delta II bearing the WorldView-1 spacecraft launches from Space Launch Complex-2 West at 11:35 a.m. on Sept. 18. The DigitalGloble WorldView-1 spacecraft is a weather mapping satellite launched on the Air Force's 60th anniversary. (U.S. Air Force photo/Master Sgt. Rich Cassady)

Delta II carrying World-View 1 satellite to prepare for lift off

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- A Delta II rocket carrying the WorldView-1 satellite rolls back from Space Launch Complex-2 on Sept. 17 to prepare for launch on Sept. 18. The WorldView-1 satellite will provide commercial, high-resolution images of Earth for DigitalGlobe, which specializes in global commercial Earth imagery and geospatial information. (Courtesy photo)

NFIRE missile defense experiment lifts off from Vandenberg

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- A modified Minuteman II booster vehicle with a simplified target payload lifts off at 1:31 a.m. on Aug 23 from North Vandenberg. The launch was part of an exercise involving the tracking of a long-range target missile by the Near Field Infrared Experiment research satellite. (U.S. Air Force photo/Joe Davila)