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In October 1997, a Titan IV-B rocket launched Cassini–Huygens, a pair of probes sent to Saturn. It was the only use of a Titan IV for a non-Department of Defense launch. Huygens landed on Titan on January 14, 2005. Cassini remained in orbit around Saturn. The Cassini Mission ended on September 15, 2017, when the spacecraft was sent into ...
The Titan IVB was the last Titan rocket to remain in service, making its penultimate launch from Cape Canaveral on 30 April 2005, followed by its final launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base on 19 October 2005, carrying the USA-186 optical imaging satellite for the National Reconnaissance Office. [citation needed]
Titan I: C-4 CCAFS LC-16: Suborbital: Failure RVX-3: Guidance compartment collapsed at T+52 seconds. Missile destroyed itself T+56 seconds. 24 February Titan I: G-4 CCAFS LC-15: Suborbital: Success RVX-4: 8 March 18:00 Titan I: C-1 CCAFS LC-16: Suborbital: Failure RVX-3: Second stage failed to start. Stuck valve prevented operation of the gas ...
The last Titan variant to use the complex was the Titan IV, starting on 8 March 1991, with the launch of Lacrosse 2. On 19 October 2005, the last flight of a Titan rocket occurred, when a Titan IVB was launched from SLC-4E, with an Improved Crystal satellite. Following this launch, the complex was deactivated, having been used for 68 launches.
Retired: Titan IIIC, Titan IIIE, Titan IV Space Launch Complex 41 ( SLC-41 ), previously Launch Complex 41 ( LC-41 ), is an active launch site at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] As of 2024, the site is used by United Launch Alliance (ULA) for Atlas V and Vulcan Centaur launches.
The Solid Rocket Motor Upgrade (SRMU) was a solid rocket motor that was used as a booster on the Titan IVB launch vehicle. Developed by Hercules (later ATK), it was intended to be a high-performance, low-cost upgrade to the UA1207 boosters previously used on Titan IV.
A Titan IV rocket with the Cassini–Huygens payload at LC-40 in 1997. Originally designated Launch Complex 40, SLC-40 hosted its inaugural launch for the United States Air Force in June 1965, a Titan IIIC rocket equipped with two transtage upper stages for testing purposes.
The Inertial Upper Stage (IUS), originally designated the Interim Upper Stage, was a two-stage, solid-fueled space launch system developed by Boeing for the United States Air Force beginning in 1976 [4] for raising payloads from low Earth orbit to higher orbits or interplanetary trajectories following launch aboard a Titan 34D or Titan IV rocket as its upper stage, or from the payload bay of ...