12 Apr
2001
12 Apr
'01
8:41 p.m.
At 02:20 PM 4/12/2001 -0700, you wrote:
Not quite, Titan IIs are a medium lift space launch vehicle with an
approximate 4,500 lbs to LEO capability. The Boeing Delta II with the lift
package can put 12,000 lbs into LEO. The Delta 3, its bigger brother can
put 18,000 lbs into LEO.
At one time the Titan II was the only "flying" launch vehicle in our inventory.
I was counting the Titan IV as what it evolved into. It really is different
enough that it is a Titan in name only. It can put 47,800 lb into LEU.
I still see enough of Thor in Delta III that I would consider it a decendent
of the Thor IRBM.
I don't know what Delta II uses for guidance these days, but in 92 they
used what I would consider a classic computer.
Eric
Titans
are the big ICBM's right?
Big enough that they evolved into the biggest (unmanned) launch vehicle
that the US now has.