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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.
A Titan IIIE-Centaur rocket (Centaur D-1T stage) launches Voyager 2. The Centaur D-1T (powered by RL10A-3-3 engines) was an improved version for use on the far more powerful Titan III booster in the 1970s, [47] with the first launch of the resulting Titan IIIE in 1974. The Titan IIIE more than tripled the payload capacity of Atlas-Centaur, and ...
The Titan IIIE, with a high-specific-impulse Centaur upper stage, was used to launch several scientific spacecraft, including both of NASA's two Voyager space probes to Jupiter, Saturn and beyond, and both of the two Viking missions to place two orbiters around Mars and two instrumented landers on its surface.
Solar System escape velocity achieved on Jupiter fly-by 5 September 12:56 Titan III(23)E: 23E-6 TC-6: CCAFS LC-41: Heliocentric [6] Success Voyager 1: Final flight of Titan IIIE Probe targeted at Jupiter, Saturn, and Titan (moon) Solar System escape velocity achieved on Jupiter fly-by
Titan IIIE Centaur-D1T [8] NASA: Flyby Successful Closest approach on 12 November 1980 at 23:45 UTC. Flew past Titan, Tethys, Mimas, Enceladus and Rhea. [10] [9] 4 Cassini–Huygens: Cassini: 15 October 1997 [2] Titan IV(401)B Centaur-T [18] NASA: Orbiter Successful Huygens: ESA: Titan lander Successful Entered orbit 1 July 2004. First probe to ...
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. Previously, it had been used by the United States Air Force for Titan IIIC, Titan IIIE, and Titan IV ...
United Launch Alliance's next-generation rocket's debut launch has been listed as "to be announced" since a Centaur upper stage exploded in March.
Helios-A was launched on December 10, 1974, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 41 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. [23] This was the first operational flight of the Titan IIIE rocket. The rocket's test flight had failed when the engine on the upper Centaur stage did not light, but the launch of Helios-A was uneventful.