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Titan III

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An American launch vehicle family built on the Titan II airframe with strap-on solid rocket boosters, developed primarily for U.S. Air Force military and reconnaissance payloads. Its Titan IIIE variant, with a Centaur upper stage, launched the Viking Mars landers and the Voyager probes in the 1970s.

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Vehicle Class
Heavy-lift expendable launch vehicle 1
Manufacturer
Martin Marietta 1
Status
Retired; superseded by the later Titan IV for the heaviest national-security payloads. 1
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