Titan IIIE-Centaur launch vehicle
Titan IIIE was a heavy-lift Titan III variant combining the Titan core and solid boosters with a high-energy Centaur upper stage. Seven vehicles flew from 1974 through 1977 for NASA planetary and solar-system missions, launching Helios 1 and 2, Viking 1 and 2, and Voyager 1 and 2.
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Identity
- Aliases
- Titan IIIE-CentaurTitan 3E
- Family Name
- Titan IIIE
- Full Name
- Titan IIIE-Centaur launch vehicle
- Status
- retired
- Type
- rocket
Details
- Description
- Titan IIIE was a heavy-lift Titan III variant combining the Titan core and solid boosters with a high-energy Centaur upper stage. Seven vehicles flew from 1974 through 1977 for NASA planetary and solar-system missions, launching Helios 1 and 2, Viking 1 and 2, and Voyager 1 and 2.
- First Flight Year
- 1,974
- Last Flight Year
- 1,977
- Operator
- Parent Vehicle Family
- Propulsion Configurations
- Entries
- Nested value
- Nested value
- Nested value
- Nested value
- Name
- Titan IIIE-Centaur D-1T configuration
- Notes
- Exact Titan IIIE-Centaur stack used for NASA's planetary missions: two LR87-AJ-11 engines on the Titan first stage, two UA-1205 solid strap-on motors, one LR91-AJ-11 on the second stage, and two RL10A-3-3A engines on Centaur D-1T. Mission-specific Helios fourth-stage motors and spacecraft propulsion are intentionally excluded from the launch-vehicle record.
- Rocket Specs
- Reusability
- expendable
- Stages Count
- 3
- Strap On Boosters Count
- 2
Links
- Wikipedia Url
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_IIIE
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- Creation Time
- July 13, 2026 at 08:31:40 UTC
- Updated Time
- August 23, 2026 at 20:36:21 UTC
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