Launch Vehicles - Weapons

Airman, Jan, 2003

Atlas V

Primary function: Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle designed to improve space launch operability and standardization. Dimensions: Three common core boosters, each booster diameter 12 ft., 6 in. Payload capability: 42,000 pounds into low earth orbit; 29,000 pounds into geotransfer orbit; 14,000 pounds into geostationary orbit.

Delta II

Primary function: Space-lift vehicle. Dimensions: Length 125 ft. 9 in., diameter 8 ft. Payload: Navstar Global Positioning System, as well as civil and commercial satellites into low earth, polar, geotransfer, and geosynchronous orbits,

Delta IV

Primary function: Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle designed to improve space launch operability and standardization. Dimensions: Common core booster length 205 ft., diameter 16 ft., 8 in. Payload capability: 17,900 pounds into low earth orbit; 9,285 pounds into geotransfer orbit.

Titan II

Primary function: Space-lift vehicle. Dimensions: First stage length 70 ft., diameter 10 ft. Second stage length 24 ft., diameter 10 ft. Payload Capability: 4,200 pounds into polar orbit.

Titan IVB

Primary function: Space-lift vehicle. Dimensions: Inertial upper stage length 17 ft., diameter flares from 90 to 114 in. First stage length 86.5 ft., diameter 10 ft. Second stage length 32.7 ft., diameter 10 ft. Payload Capability: Up to 47,800 pounds into low-earth orbit; up to 12,700-lb pounds into geosynchronous orbit when launched from Cape Canaveral Air Station, Fla., and up to 38,000 pounds into a low-earth polar orbit when launched from Vandenberg AFB, Calif. Using an inertial upper stage, up to 5,250 pounds into geosynchronous orbit.