The largest of the Titan family, an American heavy-lift expendable launch vehicle built for the U.S. Air Force to loft the heaviest national-security payloads, including reconnaissance satellites too large for the Space Shuttle after the Challenger disaster grounded shuttle-launched military payloads.
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Vehicle ClassHeavy-lift expendable launch vehicle 1 ManufacturerMartin Marietta / Lockheed Martin 1 First Flight Date StatusRetired in 2005, the last of the Titan family and the final U.S. launch vehicle directly descended from a ballistic missile. 1 Classification
Vehicle ClassExpendable Launch Vehicle 1 Status
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Source Encyclopedia Astronautica
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1. Encyclopedia Astronautica
http://astronautix.com/t/titan4.html
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.
titan-iv, entity description, vehicle kind (expendable)
The largest of the Titan family, an American heavy-lift expendable launch vehicle built for the U.S.
- Operated By: Lockheed Martin
Titan IV (Wikipedia)
In Group: Titan Rocket Family, Lead sentenceQuote, In Group: Titan Rocket Family, Lead sentence
Titan IV was a family of heavy-lift space launch vehicles developed by Martin Marietta and operated by the United States Air Force from 1989 to 2005.
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