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Titan IIIE · Titan IIIE Maiden Flight
Launched 1974-02-11 13:48:02 UTCSpace Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Centaur LOX turbopump malfunction. RSO destruct at T+742 seconds.
From Launch Library 2 · updated
Launch failure
Target: High Earth Orbit
Titan IIIE lifted off with Sphinx (Titan IIIE maiden flight), but the launch failed.
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No cause has been given yet. What Lockheed Martin finds will be added here, and to the updates below.
Sphinx is the designation of an American test satellite. The Sphinx satellite was the payload for the first Titan IIIE Centaur rocket.
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.
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Height
48.8m
Diameter
3m
To low Earth orbit
15,400kg
Liftoff thrust
12,991kN
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