Titan IIIC (Lockheed Martin)
The Titan IIIC was an expendable launch system used by the United States Air Force from 1965 until 1982. It was the first Titan booster to feature large solid rocket motors and was planned to be used …
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Titan IIID (Lockheed Martin)
The Titan IIID or Titan 3D was an American expendable launch system, part of the Titan rocket family. Titan IIID was flown 22 times with KH-9 and KH-11 satellites between 1971 and 1982, all successful…
Trailblazer 1 (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)
American test vehicle. The rocket’s first three stages would take the upper stage package to a 260 km apogee. The upper stage package was mounted upside-down in relation to the other stages. When it h…
Trailblazer 2 (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)
American test vehicle. NASA rocket designed for high-speed re-entry tests….
Tsiklon-2 (Yuzhnoye Design Bureau)
The Tsyklon-2 (cyclone-2), also known as Tsiklon-2 and Tsyklon-M, GRAU index 11K69, was a Ukrainian, previously Soviet orbital carrier rocket used from the 1960s to the late 2000s….
Tsiklon-2A (Yuzhnoye Design Bureau)
The Tsyklon was a Soviet-designed expendable launch system, primarily used to put Cosmos satellites into low Earth orbit. It is based on the R-36 intercontinental ballistic missile designed by Mikhail…
Tsiklon-3 (Yuzhnoye Design Bureau)
The Tsyklon-3 was a Soviet, and subsequently Ukrainian orbital carrier rocket. A derivative of the R-36 ICBM, and a member of the Tsyklon family, it made its maiden flight on 24 June 1977, and was ret…
UR-500 (Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center)
Proton is an expendable launch system used for both commercial and Russian government space launches. The first Proton rocket was launched in 1965….
Vanguard (Lockheed Martin)
The Vanguard rocket was intended to be the first launch vehicle the United States would use to place a satellite into orbit. Instead, the Sputnik crisis caused by the surprise launch of Sputnik 1 led …
