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The Titan 2 rocket U.S. AIR FORCE FACT SHEET Posted: June 22, 2002
The Titan 2 space launch vehicle is a two-stage liquid fueled booster, designed to provide a small-to-medium weight class capability. It is able to lift approximately 4,200 pounds into a polar low-Earth circular orbit. The first stage consists of a ground ignited LR87 liquid propellant rocket, while the second stage consists of a LR91 liquid propellant rocket. The Titan family was established in October 1955, when the Air Force awarded Lockheed Martin (formerly the Martin Company) a contract to build an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). It became known as the Titan 1, the nation's first two-stage ICBM and first underground silo-based ICBM. More than 140 Titan 2 ICBMs, once the vanguard of America's strategic deterrent force, were built.
Titan 2s also were flown in NASA's Gemini manned space program in the mid-1960s. The Titan 2 space-launch vehicles are decommissioned ICBMs that have been refurbished and equipped with hardware required for use as space launch vehicles. The Martin Marietta Astronautics Group was awarded a contract in January 1986 to refurbish, integrate, and launch fourteen Titan 2 ICBMs for government space launch requirements. Tasks involved in converting the Titan 2 ICBMs into space launch vehicles include:
Deactivation of the Titan 2 ICBM system began in July 1982 and was completed in June 1987. The deactivated missiles are now in storage at Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz. The Air Force successfully launched the first Titan 2 space launch vehicle from Vandenberg AFB September 5, 1988.
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