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Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 41

Cape Canaveral Air Force Station
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station

The Cape Canaveral Air Force Station is a detachment of the 45th Space Wing , at nearby Patrick Air Force Base; located on Cape Canaveral in the State of Florida, CCAFS is the primary Launch Head of the Eastern Range....
Launch Complex 41 (LC-41) is an active Launch Site

List of Merritt Island launch sites

Merritt Island, Florida, off the eastern coast of Florida, is home to two spaceports, servicing several launch sites for rockets....
at Merritt Island, Cape Canaveral

Cape Canaveral

Cape Canaveral, from the Spanish language Cabo Ca?averal, is a headlands and bays in Brevard County, Florida, United States, near the center of that state's Atlantic Ocean coast 45 minutes East of Orlando by car....
, Florida

Florida

Florida is a U.S. state located in the Southeastern United States of the United States, bordering Alabama to the northwest and Georgia to the northeast....
. The site is currently used by United Launch Alliance

United Launch Alliance

United Launch Alliance is a joint venture between Boeing and Lockheed Martin that operates space Launch vehicles using the Atlas V, Delta II, and Delta IV rocket....
, for Atlas V

Atlas V

The Atlas V rocket is an expendable launch vehicle formerly built by Lockheed Martin and now built by the Lockheed Martin-Boeing joint venture United Launch Alliance....
launches. Previously, it had been used by the US Air Force, for Titan III

Titan III

The Titan IIIC was a space booster used by the United States Air Force. It was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, FL., and Vandenberg Air Force Base, CA....
and Titan IV

Titan IV

The Titan IV family of space boosters were used by the U.S. Air Force. They were rocket launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, and Vandenberg Air Force Base, California....
launches.

The first launch from LC-41 was a Titan IIIC, carrying four separate payloads, on December 21, 1965.

In addition to satellites, several probes were launched from LC-41 in the 1970s, including the Helios probes

Helios probes

The Helios deep space probes were launched in the mid 1970s by the Federal Republic of Germany and NASA, using US Air Force launch vehicles....
to the Sun

Sun

The Sun , a G V star, is the star at the center of the Solar System. The Earth and other matter orbit the Sun, which by itself accounts for about 98.6% of the Solar System's mass....
, the Viking

Viking program

NASA's Viking program consisted of a pair of space probes sent to Mars , Viking 1 and Viking 2. Each vehicle was composed of two main parts, an orbiter designed to photograph the surface of Mars from orbit, and a lander designed to study the planet from the surface....
probes to Mars, and the Voyager

Voyager program

The Voyager program is a series of U.S. unmanned space missions that consists of a pair of unmanned scientific Space probes, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2....
planetary flyby and deep space probes.

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List of Merritt Island launch sites

Merritt Island, Florida, off the eastern coast of Florida, is home to two spaceports, servicing several launch sites for rockets....
at Merritt Island, Cape Canaveral

Cape Canaveral

Florida

United Launch Alliance

United Launch Alliance is a joint venture between Boeing and Lockheed Martin that operates space Launch vehicles using the Atlas V, Delta II, and Delta IV rocket....
, for Atlas V

Atlas V

Titan III

The Titan IIIC was a space booster used by the United States Air Force. It was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, FL., and Vandenberg Air Force Base, CA....
and Titan IV

Titan IV

Helios probes

The Helios deep space probes were launched in the mid 1970s by the Federal Republic of Germany and NASA, using US Air Force launch vehicles....
to the Sun

Sun

The Sun , a G V star, is the star at the center of the Solar System. The Earth and other matter orbit the Sun, which by itself accounts for about 98.6% of the Solar System's mass....
, the Viking

Viking program

Voyager program

The Voyager program is a series of U.S. unmanned space missions that consists of a pair of unmanned scientific Space probes, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2....
planetary flyby and deep space probes. More recent probes have also been launched from LC-41 using the Atlas V - The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is a multipurpose spacecraft designed to conduct reconnaissance and exploration of Mars from orbit.When MRO entered orbit there were five other spacecraft in orbit of or on Mars: Mars Global Surveyor, Mars Express Orbiter, Mars Odyssey, and two Mars Exploration Rovers; a then record for mo...
in December 2004, and the New Horizons

New Horizons

New Horizons is a NASA robotic spacecraft mission currently en route to the dwarf planet Pluto. It is expected to be the first spacecraft to fly by and study Pluto and its moons, Charon , Nix , and Hydra ....
spacecraft to Pluto

Pluto

Pluto , Minor planet names Pluto, is the second-largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System and the tenth-largest body observed directly orbiting the Sun....
in January 2006.

LC-41 also was the pad used for the maiden flight of the Titan IV. The last Titan launch was on April 9, 1999, when a Titan IVB launched the USA 142

List of USA satellites

This is a list of satellites which have been given USA designations. These designations have been applied to most United States military satellites since 1984, and replaced the earlier OPS designation....
early warning satellite. This launch resulted in a failure, after the IUS

Inertial Upper Stage

The Inertial Upper Stage , originally known as the Interim Upper Stage, is a two-stage solid-fueled booster rocket developed by the U.S. Air Force for the launching of large payloads from either a Titan III rocket or from the payload bay of the Space Shuttle....
upper stage failed to separate, leaving the payload stranded in a useless GTO

Geostationary transfer orbit

A Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit or Geostationary Transfer Orbit is anintermediate orbit used to reach geostationary orbit. It is a highly ellipse earth orbit with apogee at about 35,700 km, geostationary orbit altitude, and a argument of perigee such that apogee occurs on or near the equator....
orbit. The complex was then renovated, and is now used by ULA for Atlas V launches.

Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 41

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