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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 IV was an extended length Titan III with solid rocket boosters on its sides. The Titan IV could be launched with a Centaur upper stage, the USAF Inertial Upper Stage (IUS), or no upper stage at all. This rocket was used almost exclusively to launch US military or Central Intelligence Agency payloads.
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.
First flight of Titan III, Transtage failed to pressurise 2 October Titan II: B-1 VAFB LC-395-C: Suborbital: Success "Black Widow" [3] 4 November 17:00 Titan II: B-32
The Commercial Titan III, also known as CT-3 or CT-III, was an American expendable launch system, developed by Martin Marietta during the late 1980s and flown four times during the early 1990s. It was derived from the Titan 34D , and was originally proposed as a medium-lift expendable launch system for the US Air Force , who selected the Delta ...
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.
Titan III(24)B United States: Martin Marietta: 44 m 4,500 No 23 VAFB: 1971 1984 Titan III(34)B United States: Martin Marietta: 45.3 m N/A No 11 VAFB: 1975 1987 Titan IIIC United States: Martin Marietta: 41 m 11,500 3,000 No 14 CCSFS: 1965 1970 Titan III(23)C United States: Martin Marietta: 42.5 m 13,100 [107] 3,000 No 22 CCSFS: 1970 1982 Titan ...
Forty-seven Titan III launches are known to have used Transtage upper stages; [5] of those, three are known to have suffered launch failures. [6] The first launch, boosted by a Titan IIIA, occurred on 1 September 1964; [7] the Transtage failed to pressurize, resulting in premature engine cutoff, and a failure to reach orbit. [6]