The Vandenberg launch schedule: rocket launches from Vandenberg Space Force Base on the central coast of California, with launch times in your time zone, on the timelines of your cities.
Most launches from Vandenberg are SpaceX Falcon 9 flights — Starlink batches for the polar orbit shells, Earth observation and national security missions — together with smaller rockets such as Firefly Alpha. Rockets fly south over the Pacific into polar and sun-synchronous orbits, which is why California launches carry different payloads from those in Florida.
The schedule follows the live SpaceNexus launch manifest, so when a launch slips, it moves on the timeline too. A launch whose day is set but whose time is not yet announced is shown as an all-day event. Where Polymarket has markets on a launch — launch dates, mission success — they sit under it with their odds.
Select a launch to see its provider, rocket and mission, with links to the live stream and the countdown. All launches, from Florida, New Zealand, India, Japan and elsewhere, are in the Rocket Launches calendar.
Open this calendar: today's Vandenberg launches are on the timeline of each of your cities, in its local time, and the next event button jumps straight to the next one.
Each launch sits on the timeline at its planned liftoff time, converted from the manifest to your time zone and to California time if you add Los Angeles. The time can still move within the launch window or to another day; the calendar follows the live manifest and is refreshed every few hours.
Launches just after sunset or before sunrise are often visible across Southern California, when the rocket's plume is lit by the sun high above the dark ground. Daytime launches are hard to spot far from the base.
The base is on the California coast with open ocean to the south, so rockets can fly into polar and sun-synchronous orbits without passing over populated land — the orbits of Starlink polar shells, Earth observation and many national security satellites.
The launch provider has announced the day but not the time yet. The launch gets its exact time on the timeline once it is announced.
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