Word: titans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...launch team had another concern: the last two attempts to send Titan rockets into space from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California had failed, one last August, the other on April 18. Both Titans reportedly had been trying to put secret military photographic satellites in position to keep watch on the Soviet Union and the Middle East. With the shuttle program on hold and the once trusty Titan turning unreliable, America's ability to get satellites into orbit had been seriously impaired. But NASA looked with confidence to the workhorse Delta. It had flown successfully 43 consecutive times, including...
With the space shuttle program on indefinite hold since the Challenger disaster last Jan. 28, the Pentagon has been counting on its powerful unmanned ^ Titan rockets to fill the void by carrying vital spy satellites into space. One Titan tried to lift an advanced photographic satellite into orbit last August, but the flight was aborted shortly after launch from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base. On a second try last week, another Titan exploded right after lift...
...explosion released a cloud of toxic vapor that left nearly 60 base employees suffering from eye and skin irritations. The more lasting damage may be to the U.S. space program. The loss of a second Titan left the U.S. with no reliable way to launch heavy payloads into orbit. The Pentagon is already reduced to operating with only one reconnaissance satellite, rather than the two that military planners deem necessary. If that single eye in the sky should malfunction, U.S. intelligence in space would be blinded...
Lieut. General James Abrahamson, head of the Strategic Defense Initiative, disclosed last week that the U.S. had recently aimed a powerful laser at part of a Titan II on the ground in New Mexico and had "blasted the thing just absolutely apart." The test was research for the President's Star Wars defense against missiles. Hitting a grounded target may have been a breeze, but the potency of the laser also showed the potential kinship in technology between knocking out satellites and destroying missiles...
...result of the Justice Department's successful breakup of the telecommunications titan in 1984, consumers now have more choices available for-and more decisions to make about what long-distance company they want...