Titan

The article describes Titan as having about 0.14 g gravity, a surface pressure of about 1.5 atm, a temperature of about −179 °C, and only about 1% of Earth’s sunlight.

The National Reconnaissance Office removed FARRAH satellites from the Space Shuttle manifest during the mid-1980s and chose to launch them on converted Titan II ICBMs instead.

Three additional Titan II rockets assigned to classified payloads became available for other programs in 1993.

Hydrogen cyanide has been detected on comets and in the atmospheres of planets and moons like Saturn's moon Titan.

The Air Force eliminated the Atlas-Agena launch option and decided to launch IDSCS satellites on the fourth Titan IIIC launch.

The first Titan IIIC launched successfully in June 1965, the second Titan IIIC launch failed in October 1965, and the third Titan IIIC launch was partially successful in December 1965.

The final launch of eight IDSCS satellites in June 1968 atop a Titan IIIC brought the total number of satellites in orbit to 35.

Hyperion is a small, irregular, sponge-like moon whose orbit is locked in resonance with Titan.

The Titan merger would have caused Titan’s orbit to expand and become more eccentric, sweeping through orbital resonances with inner moons and amplifying their eccentricities.

If Titan formed in a giant impact roughly half a billion years ago, Dragonfly may uncover chemical or structural evidence of that event in Titan’s crust and surface deposits.

Resonant interactions after the Titan merger could have pushed smaller inner moons onto intersecting paths and triggered catastrophic impacts that produced ring-forming debris.

Dragonfly is a nuclear-powered octocopter that will explore multiple locations on Titan’s surface, sample material, and image the geology at close range.

NASA’s Dragonfly mission is scheduled to reach Titan in 2034.

Titan’s current eccentric orbit is slowly circularizing under tidal forces and signals a recent dynamical disturbance consistent with a merger.

The thicker, tall fairing on the March 21, 1971 Titan launch indicated a larger and elongated payload inside the rocket.

The March 21, 1971 Titan-launched payload entered a highly elliptical, highly inclined orbit that passed low over the southern hemisphere and high over the northern hemisphere.

A new Titan rocket launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base on March 21, 1971 carrying a thicker fairing the same diameter as the Titan core stage.

A total of eight JUMPSEAT satellites were launched on Titan 3B Agena rockets between 1971 and 1987.