Viking 2
Titan IIIE
Lockheed Martin
Mission
Viking 2
Type: Planetary Science
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.
Location
Space Launch Complex 41
Cape Canaveral, FL, USA
864 rockets have launched from Cape Canaveral, FL, USA.
Rocket
Titan IIIE – Lockheed Martin
Family: Titan
Length: 48.8 m
Diameter: 3.05 m
Launch Mass: 632 T
Low Earth Orbit Capacity: 15400 kg
The Titan IIIE was manufactured by Lockheed Martin with the first launch on 1974-02-11. Titan IIIE has 6 successful launches and 1 failed launches with a total of 7 launches.
Agency
Lockheed Martin
Type: Commercial
Abbreviation: LMT
Founded: 1953
Launchers: Titan | Agena
Spacecraft: Hubble | JUNO | InSight
Country: USA
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.
