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Intercontinental ballistic missile test set for Central Coast

A successful Air Force test launch of an unarmed Minuteman III ICBM from the Central Coast.
Airman 1st Class Ryan Quijas
A successful Air Force test launch of an unarmed Minuteman III ICBM from the Central Coast.

Launch window is from late Tuesday evening into early Wednesday morning.

The Air Force is planning an intercontinental ballistic missile test for this week from the Central Coast. The launch window from Vandenberg Space Force Base is from 11:01 p.m. Tuesday night to 5:01 a.m. Wednesday.

It’s the latest in a series of ongoing tests to check the readiness of launch crews, and equipment

The launches typically deliver a dummy payload to a test range more than 4000 miles away in the South Pacific.

The U.S. routinely issues a global notification of test plans to let other countries know that it is a test, and nothing more.

Lance Orozco has been News Director of KCLU since 2001, providing award-winning coverage of some of the biggest news events in the region, including the Thomas and Woolsey brush fires, the deadly Montecito debris flow, the Borderline Bar and Grill attack, and Ronald Reagan's funeral.