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Launch site | Vandenberg Space Force Base | ||||||||||||
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Location | 34°34′34″N 120°37′57″W / 34.5762°N 120.6324°W | ||||||||||||
Time zone | UTC−08:00 (PST) | ||||||||||||
• Summer (DST) | UTC−07:00 (PDT) | ||||||||||||
Short name | SLC-8 | ||||||||||||
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Orbital inclination range | 51° – 145° | ||||||||||||
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Space Launch Complex 8 (SLC-8), is a launch pad at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, United States. It is currently only used by Minotaur rockets. It was originally part of the California Spaceport and was known as the Commercial Launch Facility (CLF) or Space Launch Facility (SLF).[1] In addition to supporting occasional Minotaur rockets, SLC-8 is capable of hosting small launch vehicles thanks to a new clean pad built in 2019; as of 2024, this has not been used.[2] Much like the Minotaur rocket family itself, SLC-8 has seen little use since the early 2010s.[3]
As of May 2024, nine rockets - six Minotaur I and three Minotaur IV - have been launched from SLC-8.
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