The first Titan IV Centuar was successfully launched from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Station, Florida on February 7, 1994. Above, Titan IV core vehicle stages are built at Lockheed Martin's Titan manufacturing facility in Denver.
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Titan IV, produced and launched from U.S. Air Force by Lockheed Martin, is the nation's largest, most powerful expendable space launch vehicle. It provides primary access to space for critical national secuirty and civil payloads and is launched from the East and West Coasts.
Tita launch systems have a better than 95 percent operational success rate. Titan IV is capable of placing 39,000 pounds inot low-Earth orbit or more than 10,000 pounds into geosynchronous orbit--22,300 miles above the Earth.
Titan IV consists of two solid-propellant stages "O" motors, a liquid propellant two-stage core and a 16.7-foot-diamter payload fairing. Upgraded three-segment solid rocket motors increase the vehicle's payload capability by approximately 25 percent.
The Titan IV configurations include a cryogenic Centaur upper stage, a solid-propellant Intertial Upper Stage (IUS), or no upper stage. Titan IV rockets are launched from Vandenburg Air Force Base, California, or Cape Canaveral Air Station, Florida.
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The first Titan IV Centuar was successfully launched from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Station, Florida on February 7, 1994. Above, Titan IV core vehicle stages are built at Lockheed Martin's Titan manufacturing facility in Denver. |
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The Air Force will begin launching an advanced version called the Titan IV B in 1996. Upgraded solid rocket motors will increase payload capacity to 49,000 pounds to low-earth orbit and 12,700 pounds to geosynchronous oribt. Advancements also include improved electronics and guidance. The Titan IV B will also have new standaradized vehicle interfaces that will increase the efficiency of vehicle processing. Additionally, the new programmable aerospace ground equipment (PAGE) will be used to monitor and control vehicle count-down and launch.
Lockheed Martin provides overall program management, system integration, and payload integration for the program and builds teh first and second stages and Centaur upper stage of the vehicle. Other members of the Titan IV team and their responsiblilites are shown on the following diagram.
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