Titan II SLV | Landsat 6
Space Launch Complex 4W
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
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United States Air Force
The United States Air Force (USAF) is the air service branch of the United States Armed Forces, and is one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. Originally created on 1 August 1907, as a part of the United States Army Signal Corps, the USAF was established as a separate branch of the United States Armed Forces in 1947 with the enactment of the National Security Act of 1947.
Landsat 6
The Landsat 6 satellite was a commercial program jointly with the Department of Commerce (NOAA) and EOSAT Company that provided data for a wide range of Earth resources applications including environmental monitoring, natural resource exploration, urban planning, and cartography. The Landsat 6 satellite continued the series of operational Earth resource monitoring spacecraft begun with Landsat 1 in 1972.
Titan II SLV
Height 31.40 Meters
Max Stages 3
Mass To GTO 0 kg
Liftoff Thrust 1900 kN
Diameter 3.05 Meters
Mass To LEO 3600 kg
Liftoff Mass 117 Tonnes
Launch Success 12
Consecutive Success 9
Maiden Flight 1988-09-05
Launch Failures 1
Programs
Landsat
The Landsat program is the longest-running enterprise for acquisition of satellite imagery of Earth. It is a joint NASA / USGS program.
