Titan IIIE

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Titan IIIE was a U.S. expendable launch vehicle variant of the Titan III family, equipped with a Centaur upper stage and used in the 1970s to send deep-space probes such as Voyager 1 on interplanetary trajectories.

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Label Occurrences
Titan IIIE canonical 10
Titan III 1

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf expendable launch vehicle
orbital launch vehicle
agencyUser NASA
United States Air Force
alsoKnownAs Titan IIIE-Centaur
surface form: Titan III-Centaur
configuration two-stage core with cryogenic upper stage
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
designedTo send spacecraft on interplanetary trajectories
developedFor Mars Exploration Program
surface form: NASA planetary missions
developedFrom Titan IIIC
era 1970s
failedLaunches 1
failureDetail one launch failed due to Centaur upper stage issue
family Titan IIIE self-linksurface differs
surface form: Titan III
firstFlightDate 1974-02-11
firstLaunchPayload Helios 1
firstStageEngineType LR-87
lastFlightDate 1977-09-05
lastLaunchPayload Voyager 1
launchConfiguration two solid rocket boosters with liquid core and Centaur upper stage
launchProvider NASA
United States Air Force
launchSite Cape Canaveral LC-41
surface form: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 41

Cape Canaveral
surface form: Cape Canaveral, Florida
manufacturer Martin Marietta
missionType planetary exploration support
solar exploration support
notablePayload Helios 1
Helios 2
Helios 1
surface form: Helios solar probes

Viking 1
Viking 2
Viking program spacecraft
Voyager 1
Voyager 2
Voyager 1
surface form: Voyager program spacecraft
program U.S. Titan rocket program
propellantTypeFirstStage hypergolic
propellantTypeSecondStage hypergolic
propellantTypeUpperStage liquid hydrogen / liquid oxygen
secondStageEngineType LR-91
status retired
successfulLaunches 6
totalLaunches 7
upperStage Centaur
upperStageVariant Centaur
surface form: Centaur D-1T
usedFor deep-space missions
interplanetary missions

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Voyager 1 launchVehicle Titan IIIE
Voyager program launchVehicle Titan IIIE
Titan IIIE family Titan IIIE self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Titan III
Titan IIIE-Centaur boosterType Titan IIIE
Centaur usedOnLaunchVehicle Titan IIIE
LR-87 usedOn Titan IIIE
Helios 1 launchVehicle Titan IIIE
Titan III familyMember Titan IIIE
Helios program launchVehicleUsed Titan IIIE
Titan rocket family hasVariant Titan IIIE
subject surface form: Titan III