Titan IVB

Titan IV-B SLV-7

Mission Profile

The Titan IVB (Titan IV-B, SLV-7) was a three-to-four-stage American heavy-lift launch vehicle in the Titan family, the final and most powerful Titan variant with upgraded solid rocket motor segments for maximum performance. Standing 62.2 m tall with a 3.1 m core diameter and a liftoff mass of 943 tonnes, it generated 15,680 kN of liftoff thrust and could deliver 21,680 kg to low Earth orbit or 8,620 kg to geostationary transfer orbit. First flying in February 1997, the Titan IVB launched the heaviest US national security payloads and NASA's Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn before the Titan family was retired in 2005.