Titan IV | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-05-06

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00:01:49 1 Features
00:03:09 1.1 Variants and type identification
00:04:06 2 Background
00:05:24 2.1 Titan IV
00:06:25 2.2 1993 booster explosion
00:08:17 2.3 Cassini–Huygens launch
00:08:56 2.4 1998 failure, and two in 1999
00:13:05 2.5 Solid Rocket Motor Upgrade test stand
00:13:52 2.6 Aluminum-lithium tanks
00:14:39 2.7 Retirement
00:15:20 2.8 Surviving examples
00:15:56 3 General characteristics
00:19:11 4 Program cost
00:19:39 5 Launch history
00:19:49 6 See also



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The Titan IV family (including the IVA and IVB) of rockets were used by the U.S. Air Force. They were launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, and Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. At the time of its introduction, the Titan IV was the "largest unmanned space booster used by the Air Force."As originally conceived in the mid-1980s, the Titan IV was only intended to complement the space shuttle and fly a mere ten times. However, the Challenger Disaster in 1986 caused a renewed dependence on expendable launch systems so that the program was significantly expanded. Under the original plan, the Titan IV would only be paired with Centaur stages and fly exclusively from LC-41 at Cape Canaveral.
The post-Challenger program also involved flying IUS (Inertial Upper Stage) or even no upper stages.  LC-40 at the Cape was also converted for Titan IV.   Even with the reduced schedule, almost forty Titan IVs were scheduled as of 1991 and a new, improved SRM (solid rocket motor) casing using lightweight composite materials was introduced.
The Titan IV was the last of the Titan family of rockets. It was retired in 2005 due to its high cost of operation.  The final launch (B-30) from Cape Canaveral AFS occurred on April 29, 2005, and the final launch from Vandenberg AFB occurred on October 19, 2005.Lockheed Martin Space Systems built the Titan IVs near Denver, Colorado, under contract to the government.The Titan IV is currently on display at Evergreen Air and Space Museum in McMinnville, Oregon.