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![]() U.S. Air Force Titan 2 rocket U.S. AIR FORCE FACT SHEET Posted: Sept. 19, 2000
The Titan 2 space launch vehicle is a two-stage liquid fueled booster, designed to provide a small-to-medium weight class capability. It is able to lift approximately 4,200 pounds into a polar low-Earth circular orbit. The first stage consists of a ground ignited LR87 liquid propellant rocket, while the second stage consists of a LR91 liquid propellant rocket. The Titan family was established in October 1955, when the Air Force awarded Lockheed Martin (formerly the Martin Company) a contract to build an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). It became known as the Titan 1, the nation's first two-stage ICBM and first underground silo-based ICBM. More than 140 Titan 2 ICBMs, once the vanguard of America's strategic deterrent force, were built.
Titan 2s also were flown in NASA's Gemini manned space program in the mid-1960s. The Titan 2 space-launch vehicles are decommissioned ICBMs that have been refurbished and equipped with hardware required for use as space launch vehicles. The Martin Marietta Astronautics Group was awarded a contract in January 1986 to refurbish, integrate, and launch fourteen Titan 2 ICBMs for government space launch requirements. Tasks involved in converting the Titan 2 ICBMs into space launch vehicles include:
Deactivation of the Titan 2 ICBM system began in July 1982 and was completed in June 1987. The deactivated missiles are now in storage at Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz. The Air Force successfully launched the first Titan 2 space launch vehicle from Vandenberg AFB September 5, 1988. NASA's Clementine spacecraft, which was launched aboard a Titan 2 in January 1994, discovered water on the moon in November 1996.
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Flight data file Vehicle: Titan 2 (G-13) Payload: NOAA-L Launch date: Sept. 20, 2000 Launch window: 1022-1032 GMT (6:22-6:32 a.m. EDT) Launch site: SLC-4W, Vandenberg AFB, Calif. ![]() Pre-launch briefing Launch timeline - Chart with times and descriptions of events to occur during the launch. ![]() NOAA-L - A look at the NOAA-L weather satellite and its purpose in environmental research. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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