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Titan II GLV
Launch of Gemini 11 on a Titan II GLV from LC-19
Function
Human-rated launch vehicle for Gemini spacecraft
Manufacturer
Martin
Country of origin
United States
Size
Height
109 ft (33 m)[1]
Diameter
10 ft (3.0 m)
Mass
340,000 lb (150 t)
Stages
2
Capacity
Payload to LEO[altitude and inclination needed]
Mass
7,900 lb (3.6 t)
Associated rockets
Family
Titan
Launch history
Status
Retired
Launch sites
Cape Canaveral LC-19
Total launches
12
Success(es)
12
First flight
April 8, 1964
Last flight
November 11, 1966
Type of passengers/cargo
Gemini
First stage
Powered by
1 LR87-AJ-7
Maximum thrust
430,000 lbf (1,900 kN)
Specific impulse
258 s
Burn time
156 seconds
Propellant
Aerozine 50 / N2O4
Second stage
Powered by
1 LR91-AJ-7
Maximum thrust
100,000 lbf (440 kN)
Specific impulse
316 s
Burn time
180 seconds
Propellant
Aerozine 50 / N2O4
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The Titan II GLV (Gemini Launch Vehicle) or Gemini-Titan II was an American expendable launch system derived from the Titan II missile, which was used to launch twelve Gemini missions for NASA between 1964 and 1966. Two uncrewed launches followed by ten crewed ones were conducted from Launch Complex 19 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, starting with Gemini 1 on April 8, 1964.
The Titan II was a two-stage liquid-fuel rocket, using a hypergolic propellant combination of Aerozine 50 fuel and nitrogen tetroxide oxidizer. The first stage was powered by an LR87 engine (with two combustion chambers and nozzles, fed by separate sets of turbomachinery),[2][3] and the second stage was propelled by an LR-91 engine.
^Gatland, Kenneth (1976), Manned Spacecraft (2nd revision ed.), New York: MacMillan, p. 37, ISBN 0-02-542820-9
^Sutton, George P. (2006). History of liquid propellant rocket engines. Reston, Va.: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. pp. 381, 384. ISBN 1-56347-649-5. OCLC 63680957.
^"Aerojet-General LR87 Liquid Rocket". National Museum of the US Air Force. Archived from the original on December 25, 2010. Retrieved December 25, 2010.
intended to test the spacecraft's heat shield. It was launched on a TitanIIGLV rocket. The spacecraft used for the Gemini 2 mission was later refurbished...
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were, however, assigned to them prospectively: 12568 - GLV-13; 12569 - GLV-14; and 12570 - GLV-15. From 1962 to 1967, Gemini cost $1.3 billion in 1967...
6555th's Titan-Gemini Division lasted considerably longer than its SLV-II Division. The division exercised technical test control over the TitanIIGLV launch...
Cliff Lethbridge. Retrieved 8 October 2021. "ATLAS B FACT SHEET". spaceline.org. Cliff Lethbridge. Retrieved 9 October 2021. Delta II Data Sheet[usurped]...
California was a TitanII. The operational testing of the TitanII continued until 1985. Like its predecessor the Atlas ICBM, the TitanIIGLV a derivative...
astronauts away from the disaster that would be the result of a fully fueled TitanII falling back onto LC-19. However, Schirra did not feel any movement and...
were to test the structural integrity of the new spacecraft and modified TitanII launch vehicle. It was also the first test of the new tracking and communication...
Orbit', the plan would use a Titan IIIC-launched Transtage. The Gemini 11 crew would be launched with the TitanIIGLV as they did in reality, and would...
of the Gemini crewed spaceflights. It was also used by uncrewed Titan I and TitanII missiles. LC-19 was in use from 1959 to 1966, during which time it...
use of the Pregnant Guppy to transport the first and second stages of TitanIIGLV from the Martin Co. in Baltimore, Maryland, to Cape Canaveral, Florida...
space rendezvous as McDivitt attempted to maneuver his craft close to the TitanII upper stage which launched it into orbit, but this was not successful....
TitanIIGLV Archived 2016-02-28 at the Wayback Machine astronautix.com, Titan 23G Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine astronautix.com, Titan IIIC...
2007, p. 11. Hacker, Barton; Grimwood, James (1966). On the Shoulders of Titans. Washington D.C.: NASA. p. 236. This article incorporates public domain...
suborbital flights, not including boilerplate tests One uncrewed launch on Titan IIIC ahead of proposed use in MOL programme Not including boilerplate tests...
launched into an 86-by-147-nautical-mile (159 by 272 km) orbit by a modified TitanII on March 16, 1966 (coincidentally the 40th anniversary of the launch of...
(September 1974). "Chapter 11 Pillars of Confidence". On the Shoulders of Titans: A History of Project Gemini. NASA History Series. Vol. SP-4203. NASA. p...
them. Subsequent review of previous Gemini launches as well as film of TitanII ICBM tests also showed the presence of these light flashes. This phenomenon...
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