Bill - the Western Test Range Trident firings seem to be highly classified, but it's been reported that they are several hundred km off the west coast; they are not necessarily anywhere near Vandenberg. It's possible that Vandenberg, as the primary control site for the Western Range, has tracking responsibility. The reentry vehicles presumably splash down at Kwajalein. I concur with the idea that this event is an airplane contrail. - Jonathan McDowell > Jonathan's Space Report says there were a few SSBN Trident D-5 > launches from near Vandenberg four or five years ago, but I haven't > found the coordinates for the launch points. And wouldn't any planned > launch have included an FAA warning to pilots to stay out of the area? > > --Bill Thompson --===============1023549868== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l --===============1023549868==--
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