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The Titan IV was the last of the Titan family of rockets, originally developed by the Glenn L. Martin Company in 1958. It was retired in 2005 due to their high cost of operation and concerns over its toxic hypergolic propellants, and replaced with the Atlas V and Delta IV launch vehicles under the EELV program.
This is a list of launches made by the LGM-25 Titan ICBMs, and their derivatives. Launch statistics. [edit] Rockets from the Titan family accumulated 368 launches between 1959 and 2005, 322 of which were successful, yielding a 87.5% success rate. 5. 10. 15. 20. 25. 30. 1959. 1965. 1970. 1975. 1980. 1985. 1990. 1995. 2000. 2005. Failure.
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.
American orbital launch vehicle. Developed to handle military payloads designed for launch on Shuttle from Vandenberg before the USAF pulled out of the Shuttle program after the Challenger disaster.
29 kwi 2005 · The United States Air Force and Lockheed Martin wrote the final chapter in a five-decade history at Cape Canaveral tonight with the final launch of a Titan IV B heavy-lift rocket carrying a...
23 lut 1997 · The first Titan IVB was launched from Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 40 on February 23, 1997 and carried a Defense Support Program (DSP) missile detection satellite for the Department of Defense. This maiden flight of the Titan IVB marked the first time a Cape-launched military Titan mission was declassified.
23 mar 2008 · On October 19, 2005, a rocket blasted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base - the last Titan rocket. Carrying a payload for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office, the successful Titan IV B launch brought to a close the Titan program whose first launch was in 1959.
