{"id":1507,"date":"2013-06-20T06:11:44","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T10:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.graymanwrites.com\/blog\/?p=1507"},"modified":"2013-06-20T06:16:48","modified_gmt":"2013-06-20T10:16:48","slug":"first-titan-34d-launch-from-vandenberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/first-titan-34d-launch-from-vandenberg\/","title":{"rendered":"First Titan 34D Launch from Vandenberg"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thirty years ago today — June 20, 1983 — a pair of satellites were launched from Vandenberg AFB atop a Titan 34D booster.<\/p>\n

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\n(Titan 34D launching from Cape Canaveral. DoD image from Wikimedia Commons.)<\/em><\/p>\n

Launched from Space Launch Complex (SLC, pronounced “slick”) 4-East, the two DoD satellites were designated 1983-060A (or 14137)<\/a> and 1983-060C (or 14139)<\/a>, but a 2011 Space Review article<\/a> identified the primary payload of this particular launch as a KH-9 reconnaissance satellite. The Titan 34D Wikipedia page<\/a> notes the June 1983 launch as the first Vandenberg launch for the 34D configuration.<\/p>\n

As an old Titan System Program Office guy, I’d just as soon end there, but as an old Vandenberg guy I’ll toss in another space anniversary: On this date 5 years ago, the French and U.S. Jason 2<\/a> satellite was launched from Vandenberg on a Delta II rocket. Jason 2 was designed to monitor oceanic conditions from space, and was “a cooperative mission involving the French CNES, the European EUMETSAT, and the American NOAA and NASA.”<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"pinterest\"<\/a>\"linkedin\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>by <\/span>\"feather\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thirty years ago today — June 20, 1983 — a pair of satellites were launched from Vandenberg AFB atop a Titan 34D booster. (Titan 34D launching from Cape Canaveral. DoD image from Wikimedia Commons.) Launched from Space Launch Complex (SLC, pronounced “slick”) 4-East, the two DoD satellites were designated 1983-060A \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[26,152,20,11,24,17],"class_list":["post-1507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space","tag-launch","tag-reconnaissance","tag-remote-sensing","tag-space-history","tag-titan","tag-vandenberg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1507"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1512,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507\/revisions\/1512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}