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Titan II SLV

In-active

Lockheed Martin (LMT)

Sept. 5, 1988

Description

The Titan 23G, Titan II(23)G, Titan 2(23)G or Titan II SLV was an American expendable launch system derived from the LGM-25C Titan II intercontinental ballistic missile. Retired Titan II missiles were converted by Martin Marietta, into which the Glenn L. Martin Company, which built the original Titan II, had merged. It was used to carry payloads for the United States Air Force, NASA and NOAA. Thirteen were launched from Space Launch Complex 4W at the Vandenberg Air Force Base between 1988 and 2003.

Specifications

Minimum Stage
2
Max Stage
3
Length
31.4 m
Diameter
3.05 m
Fairing Diameter
3.05 m
Launch Mass
117.0 T
Thrust
1900.0 kN

Family

Name
Titan II SLV
Family
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Variant
23G
Alias
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Full Name
Titan II SLV

Payload Capacity

Launch Cost
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Low Earth Orbit
3600.0 kg
Geostationary Transfer Orbit
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Direct Geostationary
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Sun-Synchronous Capacity
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Lockheed Martin

Commercial

None

LMT 1953

Lockheed Martin's Space Division started in the production of missiles and later ICBM's in the 1950s. Their TITAN missile system was used for 12 Gemini spacecraft and the Voyager probes. They have worked largely in collaboration with NASA on many of their probes, landers, and spacecraft, and hope to play a key role in NASA's return to the moon in 2024.

Previous Flights

flew on 13 previous launch(es).

Titan II SLV | DMSP F-16

Lockheed Martin | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Oct. 18, 2003, 4:17 p.m.

Status: Launch Successful

Mission:

The 16th flight of the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program Block 5D series with a main mission of cloud imagery and MW imaging/temperature/humidity sounding.

Sun-Synchronous Orbit

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Titan II SLV | Coriolis

Lockheed Martin | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Jan. 6, 2003, 2:19 p.m.

Status: Launch Successful

Mission:

The Coriolis / Windsat / SMEI three-year mission will provide Defense Department and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) weather data users with important ocean wind and solar wind measurements -- improving forecasting around the globe while building important knowledge that will be used in developing the next generation of Polar-orbiting environmental satellites.

Sun-Synchronous Orbit

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Titan II SLV | NOAA 17

Lockheed Martin | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
June 24, 2002, 6:23 p.m.

Status: Launch Successful

Mission:

NOAA M carried weather imagers and microwave and infrared sounders, as well as a SARSAT search-and-rescue package. It had an on-orbit mass of 1475 kg.

Polar Orbit

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Titan II SLV | NOAA 16

Lockheed Martin | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Sept. 21, 2000, 10:22 a.m.

Status: Launch Successful

Mission:

The NOAA K, L and M POES satellites begin the fifth generation of improved environmental monitoring in support of NOAA missions. The instrument payload has significant improvements and additions/deletions. The instrument changes have effected the spacecraft subsystems and data formats.

Sun-Synchronous Orbit

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Titan II SLV | DMSP F-15

Lockheed Martin | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Dec. 12, 1999, 5:38 p.m.

Status: Launch Successful

Mission:

DMSP-5D3 (Defense Meteorological Satellite Program Block 5D3) is the eleventh and most recent version of the military meteorological satellites of the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program.

Sun-Synchronous Orbit

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Titan II SLV | QuikScat

Lockheed Martin | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
June 20, 1999, 2:15 a.m.

Status: Launch Successful

Mission:

The SeaWinds instrument on the QuikScat (Quick Scatterometer) mission is a "quick recovery" mission to fill the gap created by the loss of data from the NASA Scatterometer (NSCAT), when the ADEOS 1 host satellite lost power in June 1997. The SeaWinds instrument is a specialized microwave radar that measures near-surface wind speed and direction under all weather and cloud conditions over the Earth's oceans.

Polar Orbit

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Titan II SLV | NOAA 15

Lockheed Martin | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
May 13, 1998, 3:52 p.m.

Status: Launch Successful

Mission:

Sun-Synchronous Orbit

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Titan II SLV | DMSP-5D2 F14

Lockheed Martin | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
April 4, 1997, 4:47 p.m.

Status: Launch Successful

Mission:

Military meteorological satellite

Sun-Synchronous Orbit

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Titan II SLV | Clementine 1

Lockheed Martin | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Jan. 25, 1994, 4:34 p.m.

Status: Launch Successful

Mission:

The DSPSE (Deep Space Program Science Experiment), the first of a series of Clementine technology demonstrations jointly sponsored by the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), launched in early 1994. Its principal objective is to space qualify lightweight imaging sensors and component technologies for the next generation of Department of Defense (DoD) spacecraft. The Clementine mission uses the Moon, a near-Earth asteroid (1620 Geographos), and the spacecraft's Interstage Adapter (ISA) as targets to demonstrate lightweight component and sensor performance.

Lunar Orbit

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Titan II SLV | Landsat 6

Lockheed Martin | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Oct. 5, 1993, 5:56 p.m.

Status: Launch Failure

Mission:

The Landsat 6 satellite was a commercial program jointly with the Department of Commerce (NOAA) and EOSAT Company that provided data for a wide range of Earth resources applications including environmental monitoring, natural resource exploration, urban planning, and cartography. The Landsat 6 satellite continued the series of operational Earth resource monitoring spacecraft begun with Landsat 1 in 1972.

Low Earth Orbit

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