LAUNCH CENTER

Launch Image
Success
Tue May 03 1994
United States Air Force

Trumpet 1

Launch Successful
LAUNCH PREVIEW

Launch Time

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(3:55 PM UTC)

Launch Window Start

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(3:55 PM UTC)

Launch Window End

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(3:55 PM UTC)

RECOVERY OVERVIEW

Location

No Recovery Specified

Type

No Recovery Specified

Rocket Details

Name:

Titan 401A Centaur

Description:

Titan IV was a family of heavy-lift space launch vehicles developed by Martin Marietta and operated by the United States Air Force from 1989 to 2005.

Titan 401A Centaur rocket
MISSION OVERVIEW
  • Type: Government/Top Secret
  • Trumpet signal intelligence satellites were launched by Titan-4(01)A Centaur-T into highly elliptic Molniya-type orbits. In their elliptical orbits they would move very slowly over the northern hemisphere for most of their orbital period, allowing interception of microwave line-of-sight communications beams. Since they would move slowly through the beams during their orbit, a constellation of such satellites was required to monitor Soviet communications throughout the day.
COMPLEX OVERVIEW

Location

Cape Canaveral, FL, USA

Pad

Space Launch Complex 41