Family-level launch record combining canonical variants, historical missions, public cadence forecasts, and available payload performance specs.
Historical missions are grouped by actual launch year. Forecast cadence uses family-level launch-rate rows.
| Year | Historical missions | Forecast launches |
|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 3 | 0 |
| 1999 | 5 | 0 |
| 2000 | 3 | 0 |
| 2001 | 3 | 0 |
| 2002 | 2 | 0 |
| 2003 | 4 | 0 |
| 2004 | 1 | 0 |
| 2005 | 2 | 0 |
Payload capacity by variant and target orbit when structured capacity rows are available.
| Variant | Orbit | Capacity | Altitude | Inclination | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
No performance specsNo structured payload capacity rows are linked to this vehicle family. | |||||
Latest launched missions using variants in this family.
| Mission | Variant | Launch |
|---|---|---|
| USA 186 [IC8] | Titan 404B | Oct 19, 2005 |
| USA 182 [LAC5] | Titan 405B | Apr 30, 2005 |
| USA 176 [DSP22] | Titan 402B | Feb 14, 2004 |
| USA 172 (DMSP F16) |
Canonical variants rolled up into this launch vehicle family.
| Variant | Stages | Missions | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
Commercial Titan 3 | Not stated | 4 | Retired |
Titan 23B | Not stated | 9 | Retired |
Titan 24B | Not stated | 23 | Retired |
Titan 33B | Not stated | 3 | Retired |
Titan II SLV |
| Oct 18, 2003 |
| USA 171 [RH9] | Titan 401B | Sep 9, 2003 |
| USA 169 (Milstar 6) | Titan 401B | Apr 8, 2003 |
| Coriolis Mission | Titan II SLV | Jan 6, 2003 |
| NOAA 17 Mission | Titan II SLV | Jun 24, 2002 |
Upcoming mission rows with announced launch timing.
| Mission | Variant | Announced |
|---|---|---|
No forecasted missionsNo upcoming announced mission rows are linked to this vehicle family. | ||
Titan 34B | Not stated | 11 | Retired |
Titan 34D | Not stated | 15 | Retired |
Titan 401A | Not stated | 9 | Retired |
Titan 401B | Not stated | 7 | Retired |
Titan 402A | Not stated | 3 | Retired |
Titan 402B | Not stated | 5 | Retired |
Titan 403A | Not stated | 5 | Retired |
Titan 403B | Not stated | 1 | Retired |
Titan 404A | Not stated | 3 | Retired |
Titan 404B | Not stated | 3 | Retired |
Titan 405A | Not stated | 2 | Retired |
Titan 405B | Not stated | 1 | Retired |
Titan II GLV | Not stated | 12 | Retired |
Titan IIIA | Not stated | 4 | Retired |
Titan IIIB | Not stated | 22 | Retired |
Titan IIIC | Not stated | 36 | Retired |
Titan IIID | Not stated | 22 | Retired |
Titan IIIE | Not stated | 7 | Retired |
Titan II SLV | Not stated | 13 | Retired |
Titan has a dense nitrogen atmosphere, liquid methane lakes, and an average surface temperature near −179 °C.
Titan’s thick atmosphere provides significant shielding from space radiation compared with many other non‑Earth bodies.
Long‑term (23rd century and beyond) scenarios include autonomous cities on Mars housing 10,000–100,000 people, colonies on Callisto, Ganymede, and Titan with sealed habitats, large orbital colonies between Mars and Jupiter, and automated mining and manufacturing on asteroids and moons.
NordSpace plans to use the Tundra and Tundra+ systems as the technological baseline for the Titan medium-lift vehicle.
NordSpace’s corporate roadmap targets scaling its launch vehicles from light payloads to a medium-lift Titan class capable of carrying over 5,000 kg to orbit by the early 2030s.
Voyager 1 was launched on 5 September 1977 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, on a Titan IIIE-Centaur rocket.
The Titan medium-lift vehicle is designed to carry over 5,000 kg to Low Earth Orbit by the early 2030s.
The Sample Delivery Carousel is designed to support sample collection and management activities during operations on Titan.
The Dragonfly mission is dedicated to exploring Titan, which is of particular scientific interest due to the presence of complex organic compounds.
The Sample Delivery Carousel is intended for NASA's Dragonfly mission directed towards Titan, Saturn's largest moon.
The Sample Delivery Carousel has been shipped to NASA Goddard as the first step on its journey to Titan.
The initiation of integration activities with the Dragonfly Mass Spectrometer confirms progression to a more advanced phase of the program in anticipation of future steps towards Titan.
This mission could provide evidence of past or present life on Titan and clarify the extent of any subsurface liquid water.
NASA's Dragonfly mission aims to explore Titan's surface and atmosphere.
A deep ocean inside Titan would permit more crustal flexing under Saturn's gravitational pull.
A new study indicates that Titan's tidal response has a roughly 15-hour lag between the peak of Saturn's gravitational pull and Titan's maximum deformation.
Titan has a dense, hazy atmosphere and temperatures near minus 297 degrees Fahrenheit.
Imaging spectrometers have traced Martian crust, revealed lakes on Titan, and tracked mineral-rich dust across the Sahara.
In 2008, researchers concluded from Cassini data that Titan's deformations implied a global subsurface ocean.
Petricca derived Titan's tidal behavior by tracking shifts in the frequency of Cassini's radio signal during close flybys.