LAUNCH CENTER
Success
Tue May 03 1994
United States Air Force
Trumpet 1
Launch Successful
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RECOVERY OVERVIEW
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Rocket Details
Name:
Titan 401A CentaurDescription:
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.
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