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  Titan (rocket family) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Titan was a family of U.S. expendable rockets used between 1959 and 2005.
The Titan II was a hypergolicly-fueled two-stage ICBM that was used by the U.S. Air Force from the mid 1960s to the mid 1980s.
The current owners of the Titan line (Lockheed-Martin) decided to extend their Atlas family of rockets instead of the more expensive Titans, along with joint ventures to sell launches on the Proton and the new Delta IV class of medium and heavy-lift launch vehicles.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Titan_(rocket_family)   (819 words)

  
 Atlas (moon) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Atlas (at'-ləs, IPA /ˈætləs/, Greek Άτλας) is a moon of Saturn.
Atlas seems to be a shepherd satellite of the A ring.
Atlas is significantly perturbed by Prometheus and to a lesser degree by Pandora, leading to excursions in longitude of up to 600 km (~0.25°) away from the precessing keplerian orbit with a rough period of about 3 years.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Atlas_(moon)   (243 words)

  
 Titans
Iapetus was the father of the Titans, Atlas, Menoetius, Prometheus and Epimetheus.
Atlas was the son of the Titan Iapetus by the Oceanid Clymene or Asia.
Epimetheus ("Afterthought") was the son of the Titan Iapetus by the Oceanid Clymene or Asia.
www.timelessmyths.com /classical/titans.html   (4161 words)

  
 Atlas, Greek Mythology Link.
Atlas is said to have reigned in Arcadia and have been succeeded by Deimas, son of Dardanus 1, the king who is at the origin of the royal house of Troy.
The Pelopides (descendants of Pelops 1) may be called descendants of Atlas because Pelops 1's wife was the daughter of a Pleiad and the PLEIADES were daughters of Atlas.
Hesperis was daughter of Zeus and Themis, or perhaps of Hesperus 2, a Titan, son of Iapetus 1 and Clymene 1.
homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/Atlas.html   (792 words)

  
 Saturn's Moon Titan
Titan [TY-tun] is the largest moon of Saturn and the second largest moon in the solar system, rivaled only by Jupiter's moon Ganymede.
Titan's methane, through continuing photochemistry, is converted to ethane, acetylene, ethylene, and (when combined with nitrogen) hydrogen cyanide.
This image of Titan was taken by the Pioneer 11 spacecraft on September 3, 1979 from a range of 3.6 million km.
www.solarviews.com /eng/titan.htm   (3083 words)

  
 Atlas
Atlas is a scion of the Titans, the Greek race of giants, and the son of Iapetus and the nymph Clymene.
In the revolt of the Titans against the gods of the Olympic, Atlas stormed the heavens and Zeus punished him for this deed by condemning him to forever bear the heavens upon his shoulders.
When Atlas returned with the apples, Heracles requested him to assume the load for a moment, saying he needed to adjust the pad to ease the pressure on his shoulders.
www.pantheon.org /mythica/articles/a/atlas.html   (247 words)

  
 Atlas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
tlas, in Greek mythology, son of the Titan Lapetus and the nymph Clymene, and brother of Prometheus.
Atlas was the father of the Hesperides, the nymphs who guarded the tree of golden apples, and Hercules sought his help in performing one of his labors.
Atlantes, the plural form of Atlas, is the classical term in architecture for the sculptured figure of a male used as a column to support a superstructure.
www.sculpturegallery.com /sculpture/atlas.html   (223 words)

  
 Atlas (Titan)
Atlas also took a lesser goddess named Pleione as his wife and she bore him a son, Hyas, and numerous daughters known as the Hesperides, the Hyades and the Pleiades.
Atlas promised to pick them for him and even reminded Hercules that Prometheus was his brother and that Hercules could trust him as much as he trusted his brother.
Atlas was struck by Thor’s errant acting Mjolnir as it returned to his hand just as Pluto and then Zeus appeared to convince Hercules that they had been attacked without warning by Thor’s kinsman, the Asgardians.
www.marvunapp.com /Appendix/atlastitan.htm   (1405 words)

  
 Greek Mythology: ATLAS Titan God of Astronomy, Endurance, Daring, Constellation Hercules
The Titan was subsequently placed in the heavens as the Constellation Hercules (known to the Greeks as the Kneeler), and the Drakon Hesperios, his familiar or tormentor, as the adjacent star-group Draco.
Thus Atlas is described as the leader of the Titans in their contest with Zeus, and, being conquered, he was condemned to the labour of bearing heaven on his head and hands.
Atlas is said to have been the father of the Pleiades by Pleione or by Hesperis, of the Hyades and Hesperides by Aethra, and of Oenomaus and Maea by Sterope.
www.theoi.com /Titan/TitanAtlas.html   (3835 words)

  
 LGM25C   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
TITAN II was a two stage, liquid-fueled Intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) At 110 feet in length and 10 feet in diameter, it was the largest ICBM in U.S. Air Force inventory.
TITAN II it was somewhat smaller and shorter and utilized liquid oxygen as its oxidizer component.
TITAN II ICBM's were built, once the mainstay of the United States strategic missile force.
www.titan-ii.com /LGM25C.html   (1349 words)

  
 Greek Mythology: TITANS TITANES Titan Gods of Time, Heaven and Tartarus w/ Pictures
SYKEUS A Titan or Gigante who fled from Zeus and was hidden in the earth by Gaia in the shape of a fig-seed.
TITAN The Titan god of the agricultural calendar, established through the observation of the heavens.
Terrified by it, the Titanes begged Terra [Gaia the Earth] to hide her body, and Terra is said to have hidden her in a cave in the island of Crete.
www.theoi.com /Titan/Titanes.html   (10118 words)

  
 Air Force Facility Missile Site 8 (571-7) Military Reservation -- Aviation: From Sand Dunes to Sonic Booms: A National ...
The Titan II missiles were contructed to survive a first strike nuclear attack from the Soviet Union and to retaliate.
Titan II carried the largest single warhead used in the ICBM program and was capable of destroying targets that Atlas, Titan I and Minuteman I and II could not.
The Titan II, designed by the Martin Company in 1958, had superior liquid propellants than the Titan I. Instead of taking 15 to 20 minutes to raise, fuel and launch Atlas or Titan I missiles, the Titan II could be launched from the underground silo in less then one minute.
www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/aviation/air.htm   (1030 words)

  
 Atlas Facilities
Atlas Centaur is launched from Complex 36B at ETR and a launch rate of five vehicles per year is attainable.
Atlas launch vehicles are operated from LC-36, which consists of launch pads A and B. Atlas G/Centaur D-IA was launched from Launch Complex 36B.
Atlas vehicles are delivered to the launch areas in a pre-assembled condition and are erected on the launch pad, serviced and launched.
www.globalsecurity.org /space/facility/atlas_f.htm   (2005 words)

  
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Atlas and Titan were first developed as intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM), but were later converted into launchers.
One serious weakness of Atlas was the fact that all three of the Atlas engines were ignited on the ground before lift-off, with the two boosters dropping off later.
In 1977, Titan III launched the Voyager space probes, which were programmed to fly by Jupiter and Saturn and most of their moons and then continue to Uranus and Neptune.
www.csulb.edu /colleges/coe/ae/engr370i/ch05/ch4_2/ch4_2.html   (1627 words)

  
 Mythography | The Titan Atlas in Myth and Art
Atlas was a legendary Titan in Greek mythology.
According to the Greek poet Hesiod, Atlas was the son of Iapetos and the Oceanid Clymene.
It is interesting to note that another of the legendary myths in which Atlas played a part also involves the Hesperides.
www.loggia.com /myth/atlas.html   (405 words)

  
 Ancient Gods - The Titans
Most of the Titans fought with Cronus against Zeus and were punished by being banished to Tartarus.
Mnemosyne was the Titan of memory and the mother of Muses.
Iapetus was the father of Prometheus, Epimetheus, Menoetius, and Atlas by Clymene.
www.hol.gr /greece/titans.htm   (770 words)

  
 Atlas
Ancient Romans Atlas was the leader of the giant Titans who fought a war against the gods.
A moon of the planet Saturn was named after the Titan Atlas for fighting with his brother Saturn.
Atlas was the father of the Pleiades, theHyades, and the Hesperides.
www.windows.ucar.edu /tour/link=/mythology/atlas_roman.html   (266 words)

  
 Minuteman Missile NHS: Historic Resource Study (Chapter 2, Section I)
The first Atlas ICBM was tested successfully on 17 December 1957 and the first Atlas missile went on alert at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on 31 October 1959.
The development of the Titan missile resulted from the decision of the WDD and the Eisenhower administration in 1955 to move forward with the development of a second ICBM, in case the Atlas ran into delays.
Titan II was approved for development in 1959 and was designed to correct some of the perceived shortcomings of the Titan I system.
www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/mimi/hrs1-2a.htm   (1574 words)

  
 Atlas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Atlas was a Titan, one of the firstborn sons of Earth.
Atlas made the mistake of siding with his brother Cronus in a war against Zeus.
In punishment, he was compelled to support the weight of the heavens by means of a pillar on his shoulders.He was temporarily relieved of this burden by Heracles, who needed the Titan's aid in procuring the Golden Apples of the Hesperides.
www.mythweb.com /teachers/why/basics/atlas.html   (365 words)

  
 Heritage Atlas/Titan Countdown
Titan core vehicles were first assembled at the south end of the ITL complex in the four-bay Vertical Integration Building (VIB).
It was the 39th Titan IV launch and the 368th Titan flight overall.
Titan 23G-10, former Titan ICBM No. B-108, was refurbished during the 1980s for use as a space launcher.
www.geocities.com /launchreport/heritag.html   (1341 words)

  
 Atlas V EELV - Lockheed-Martin
The Lockheed Martin Atlas V results from Lockheed Martin’s combination of the best practices from both the Atlas and Titan programs into an evolved commercial and government launch system for the 21st century.
Atlas V builds on the design innovations demonstrated on Atlas III and incorporates a structurally stable booster propellant tank, enhanced payload fairing options and optional strap-on solid rocket boosters.
The Atlas V family uses a single-stage Atlas main engine, the Russian RD-180 and the newly developed Common Core Booster (CCB) with up to five strap-on solid rocket boosters.
www.globalsecurity.org /space/systems/atlas-v.htm   (401 words)

  
 Titan I Missile Site Coordinates
Titan I never was used as a launch vehicle after serving as a missile.
Titan I was primarily a parallel development with Atlas though it came a little later and used very "hard" sites.
The people: The Larson Titan I complex was manned by the 568th SMS which was activated April 1 1961, became operationally ready September 28 1962, and was inactivated March 25 1965.
w3.uwyo.edu /~jimkirk/titan1.html   (4625 words)

  
 Martin HGM/LGM-25 Titan
The Titan II was by far the most powerful nuclear armed missile ever deployed by the United States, with a deployment level of 54 LGM-25C missiles between 1964 and the beginning of its retirement in 1984.
The Titan II remained in service so long despite the fielding of more than 1000 of the much easier to operate solid-fueled LGM-30 Minuteman, because the huge warheads of the few Titan IIs represented almost 30% of the overall ICBM "megatonage" of the USAF.
The successors of Titan in the heavy launch vehicle role are the Atlas V and Delta IV EELVs (Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicles).
www.designation-systems.net /dusrm/m-25.html   (1176 words)

  
 Atlas » World of Warcraft Addons and UI Mods   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Atlas is a user interface addon for World of Warcraft that provides a number of additional maps as well as an in-game map browser.
@Jaella, Atlas is not intended to replace the World Map, and in that sense is not inteded for use in outdoor zones, save raid encounters and some nice extras like flight points.
There is no reason Atlas should interfere with MetaMap; please let me know if you have trouble using the two together.
www.curse-gaming.com /en/wow/addons-539-1-atlas.html   (805 words)

  
 Greek Mythology Gods Titans
The Titans, also known as the elder gods, ruled the earth before the Olympians overthew them.
Hyperion is the Titan of light, the father of the sun, the moon, and the dawn.
Iapetus was the father of Prometheus, Epimetheus, and Atlas.
www.desy.de /gna/interpedia/greek_myth/titan.html   (727 words)

  
 intro   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
A book of maps gets its name from Atlas, the Titan who supported the heavens on his shoulders.
In punishment, he was compelled to support the weight of the heavens by means of a pillar on his shoulders.
He was temporarily relieved of this burden by Heracles, who needed the Titan's aid in procuring the Golden Apples of the Hesperides.
mythweb.com /today/today05.html   (384 words)

  
 Spaceflight Now | Titan Launch Report | Goodbye, Titan
Details of the Titan's payload and its mission were not revealed to the public.
Titan 1's began launching in 1959, then evolved into the Titan 2 missiles that also found use in the 1960s by blasting NASA's manned Gemini missions into orbit in the precursor to Apollo and were retrofitted in the 1980s for lofting government spacecraft, including weather satellites.
Various Titan 3, 34B and 34D satellite-launchers and finally the largest and most powerful version -- the Titan 4 -- were conceived through the years to incrementally increase the capability of the rocket family.
www.spaceflightnow.com /titan/b26   (1952 words)

  
 ATLAS: The Mixed-Initiative Tutor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The overall goal of the Atlas project is to develop supplementary software that is added to second generation Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) in order to obtain third generation Intelligent Tutoring System that will carry on a natural language, knowledge-constructing dialogs with students.
We are pleased to state that Atlas has been integrated with the Andes system and supplements its pedagogical knowledge.
Atlas, the Titan (Image is Copyright © 1995 - 2001 Encyclopedia Mythica.
www.pitt.edu /~circle/Projects/Atlas.html   (935 words)

  
 Microplate Washing - M384 Atlas / Titan Stacker
The M384 Atlas combines a wide range of wash functions with a simple interface to the Titan microplate stacker.
The M384 Atlas incorporates a variety of features to facilitate cell washing.
A field retrofit is available for adding the Titan Stacker to existing M384 Atlas units as well as certain models of the Biotek© ELX405™ microplate washer.
www.titertek.com /productPages/M384_Atlas_Titan_Stacker.htm   (191 words)

  
 392nd Strategic Missile Wing  - Atlas, Titan, Minuteman training
Squadrons: 570 MS, 571 MS Note: patch is "moral" (not official) based on old WW2 bomb group.
The 392nd was formed to train crews to launch Atlas, Titan and Minuteman missiles.
The unit was short lived, as it was eliminated by the reorganization of the 1st Strategic Aerospace Division.
www.strategic-air-command.com /wings/0392mw.htm   (145 words)

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