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The Titan IIIC was an expendable launch system used by the United States Air Force from 1965 until 1982. It was the first Titan booster to feature large solid rocket motors and was planned to be used as a launcher for the Dyna-Soar , though the spaceplane was cancelled before it could fly.
The powerful Titan IIIC used a Titan III core rocket with two large strap-on solid-fuel boosters to increase its launch thrust and maximum payload mass. The solid-fuel boosters that were developed for the Titan IIIC represented a significant engineering advance over previous solid-fueled rockets, due to their large size and thrust, and their ...
Titan 3C launch 22 Dec 1965. OV2-3, along with LES-3, LES-4, and OSCAR 4, was launched on the third Titan IIIC test flight [6] on 22 December 1965 at 14:00:01 UT from Cape Canaveral LC41 [1] just one second behind schedule. From an initial parking orbit of 194 kilometres (121 mi), the Titan's Transtage boosted into a transfer orbit pending a ...
Final flight of Titan IIIC 11 May 18:45 Titan III(23)D: 23D-24 VAFB SLC-4E: LEO: Success OPS-5642 SSF-D-4: 30 October 04:05 Titan 34D/IUS: 4D-5 34D-1 CCAFS LC-40: GSO: Success OPS-9446 OPS-6451 DSCS III-A1: First flight of Titan 34D 17 November 21:22 Titan III(23)D: 23D-23 VAFB SLC-4E: LEO: Success OPS-9627 Final flight of Titan IIID
The Titan II and Titan III boosters could launch Dyna-Soar into Earth orbit, as could the Saturn C-1 (later renamed the Saturn I), and all were proposed with various upper-stage and booster combinations. In December 1961, the Titan IIIC was chosen, [27]: 19 ) but the vacillations over the launch system delayed the project and complicated planning.
The Titan IIIE or Titan 3E, also known as the Titan III-Centaur, was an American expendable launch system. Launched seven times between 1974 and 1977, [ 4 ] it enabled several high-profile NASA missions, including the Voyager and Viking planetary probes and the joint West Germany-U.S. Helios spacecraft .
The Titan IIIC was developed in time for use, the first launch taking place just four months behind the original schedule. The satellites built by 1966, sufficient for three launches, had cost just $33 million to produce (an overage of $3 million on original estimates).
The Titan III facilities included LC-40, LC-41, assembly buildings including the Vertical Integration Building, and the first rail line at the Cape. [11] The facilities were completed in 1964, and the first launch from LC-41 was of a Titan IIIC carrying four separate payloads on 21 December 1965.