Space Launch Complex 2 is an active rocket launch site at Vandenberg Space Force Base, in California, USA. It consists of two launch pads: Space Launch Complex 2 East, used by the PGM-17 Thor missile
SLC-2W in July 2024, launching Firefly Alpha VCLS Demo-2FB
A Delta 5000 carrying COBE launching from SLC-2W in 1989
SLC-2W during its Delta II years, carrying Gravity Probe B in 2004
Another view of SLC-2W launching Gravity Probe B
Space Launch Complex 1 is an inactive launch complex at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. It consists of two pads, SLC-1E and SLC-1W. Both sites were built in 1958 for the never activated 75t
Vandenberg Space Launch Complex 2
…the LGM-25C Titan II. As per its new use, LC 75-1-2 was subsequently designed to launch the Thor-Agena and the Thor-Ablestar to complement the nearby SLC-1E and 1W in its capabilities of putting satellites into polar orbit. Over the next seven years, it was put into use 21 times for nineteen Agena and two Ablestar…
Thorad-Agena at SLC-1W in December 1971, carrying various Poppy satellites
Delta II Dawn liftoff 1