Titan IIIE | Viking 2

Titan IIIE | Viking 2

Space Launch Complex 41
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

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Lockheed Martin

Lockheed Martin's Space Division started in the production of missiles and later ICBM's in the 1950s. Their TITAN missile system was used for 12 Gemini spacecraft and the Voyager probes. They have worked largely in collaboration with NASA on many of their probes, landers, and spacecraft, and hope to play a key role in NASA's return to the moon in 2024.

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Viking 2

The Viking 2 mission was part of the American Viking program to Mars, and consisted of an orbiter and a lander essentially identical to that of the Viking 1 mission. The Viking 2 lander operated on the surface for 1316 days, or 1281 sols, and was turned off on April 11, 1980 when its batteries failed. The orbiter worked until July 25, 1978, returning almost 16,000 images in 706 orbits around Mars.

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Titan IIIE


Height 48.80 Meters

Max Stages 4

Mass To GTO 0 kg

Liftoff Thrust 12991 kN

Diameter 3.05 Meters

Mass To LEO 15400 kg

Liftoff Mass 632 Tonnes


Launch Success 6

Consecutive Success 6

Maiden Flight 1974-02-11

Launch Failures 1


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NASA Large Strategic Science Missions

NASA's large strategic science missions or large strategic missions, formerly known as Flagship missions or Flagship-class missions, are the costliest and most capable NASA science spacecraft. Flagship missions exist within all four divisions of NASA's Science Mission Directorate (SMD): the astrophysics, Earth science, heliophysics and planetary science divisions.

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