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Titan 4B launch timeline SPACEFLIGHT NOW Updated: April 4, 2003
Data source: U.S. Air Force. |
Flight data file Vehicle: Titan 4B (B-35) Payload: Milstar 6 Launch date: April 8, 2003 Launch window: 9:43 a.m. to 1:43 p.m. EDT (1343-1743 GMT) Launch site: Complex 40, Cape Canaveral, Florida Satellite broadcast: Galaxy 3, Transponder 5, C-band Pre-launch briefing Mission preview - Our story providing an overview of this launch. Launch timeline - Chart with times and descriptions of events to occur during the launch. Weather forecast - The latest forecast for launch day conditions. Launch hazard area - A map of the restricted area during liftoff. Titan 4B - Description of rocket being used in this launch. Titan 4 history - Chart with listing of previous Titan 4 flights. Milstar satellite - A look at the Military Strategic and Tactical Relay satellite program. Communications - Overview of Medium Data Rate and crosslink payloads on Milstar. Antennas - Technical description of Milstar's medium data rate nulling antennas. DPS - Digital processing subsystem on Milstar is key to payload. Titan 4 directory - See our coverage of previous Titan 4 rocket flights. Soviet Space For the first time ever available in the West. Rocket & Space Corporation Energia: a complete pictorial history of the Soviet/Russian Space Program from 1946 to the present day all in full color. Available from our store.U.S. - U.K. - E.U. - Worldwide Viking patch This embroidered mission patch celebrates NASA's Viking Project which reached the Red Planet in 1976.U.S. - U.K. - E.U. - Worldwide Apollo 7 DVD For 11 days the crew of Apollo 7 fought colds while they put the Apollo spacecraft through a workout, establishing confidence in the machine what would lead directly to the bold decision to send Apollo 8 to the moon just 2 months later.U.S. - U.K. - E.U. - Worldwide Gemini 12 Gemini 12: The NASA Mission Reports covers the voyage of James Lovell and Buzz Aldrin that capped the Gemini program's efforts to prove the technologies and techniques that would be needed for the Apollo Moon landings. Includes CD-ROM.U.S. - U.K. - E.U. - Worldwide Get e-mail updates Sign up for our NewsAlert service and have the latest news in astronomy and space e-mailed direct to your desktop (privacy note: your e-mail address will not be used for any other purpose). |
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