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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 ...
First crewed Titan launch 25 March 02:15 Titan II: B-60 VAFB LC-395-B: Suborbital: ... First flight of Titan IIIE. Centaur LOX turbopump malfunction. RSO T+525 seconds.
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.
This comparison of retired orbital launch systems lists the attributes of all retired individual rocket configurations designed to reach orbit. For a list of proposed rocket configurations or individual configurations currently being launched check out Comparison of Orbital Launch Systems .
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 [132] 3,000 No 22 CCSFS: 1970 1982 Titan IIID United States: Martin Marietta: 36 m 12,300 [133] No 22: VAFB: 1971 1982 ...
Titan IIIE/Centaur: LC-41, CCAFS: NASA: Boilerplate: NASA: Intended: GSO: Test carrier rocket: 12 February 1974: Failure: Sphinx : NASA: Intended: GSO: Plasma research: 12 February 1974: Failure: Upper stage turbopump malfunction 16 February 05:00 M-3C: Kagoshima Space Center LP-M ISAS: MS T2 (Tansei 2) ISAS Highly elliptical orbit: Technology ...
The Sphinx satellite was the payload for the first Titan IIIE Centaur rocket. It was launched on February 11, 1974 from a Titan IIIE Centaur. However, the rocket did not reach Earth orbit [1] because the second stage failed to ignite, at which point the range safety officer ordered the rocket destroyed. [2]