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Taurus 3110
Part of Taurus
American all-solid propellant orbital launch vehicle.
AKA: Taurus XL 3110. Status: Active. First Launch: 2009-02-24. Last Launch: 2011-03-04. Number: 2 . Thrust: 1,380.00 kN (310,230 lbf). Gross mass: 73,000 kg (160,000 lb). Height: 31.60 m (103.60 ft). Diameter: 2.35 m (7.70 ft).
4 stage vehicle consisting of 1 x Castor 120 + 1 x Orion 50SXLG + 1 x Orion 50XL + 1 x Orion 38.
More at: Taurus 3110.
Family:
all-solid,
orbital launch vehicle.
Country:
USA.
Spacecraft:
Leostar,
Leostar-1,
ROCSAT,
Cubesat.
Launch Sites:
Vandenberg,
Vandenberg 576E.
Stages:
Castor 120,
Pegasus-1,
Pegasus-2,
Pegasus-3.
Agency:
OSC.
2009 February 24 - .
09:55 GMT - .
Launch Site:
Vandenberg.
Launch Complex:
Vandenberg 576E.
LV Family:
Taurus.
Launch Vehicle:
Taurus 3110.
FAILURE: Payload fairing did not separate..
- OCO - .
Mass: 407 kg (897 lb). Nation: USA.
Agency: McLean.
Class: Earth.
Type: Climate satellite. Spacecraft: Leostar.
Orbiting Carbon Observatory. A single instrument with a three classical grating spectrometers allowed carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere to be monitored..
2011 March 4 - .
10:09 GMT - .
Launch Site:
Vandenberg.
Launch Complex:
Vandenberg 576E.
LV Family:
Taurus.
Launch Vehicle:
Taurus 3110.
FAILURE: Fairing failed to separate..
- Glory - .
Mass: 545 kg (1,201 lb). Nation: USA.
Class: Earth.
Type: Weather satellite. Spacecraft: Leostar-1.
Second failure of this vehicle in a row due to fairing not separating. NASA satellite that would have used an aerosol polarimetry sensor (APS) to provide a global map of aerosol particulates (soot and sulphates) to help calibrate climate change models..
- E1P - .
Mass: 1.00 kg (2.20 lb). Nation: USA.
Class: Earth.
Type: Magnetosphere satellite. Spacecraft: Cubesat.
Explorer 1 Prime, Montana State University Cubesat. Was to have duplicated Explorer 1's discovery of the van Allen radiation belts in 1958 using a geiger counter..
- Hermes - .
Mass: 1.00 kg (2.20 lb). Nation: USA.
Class: Technology.
Type: Technology satellite. Spacecraft Bus: Cubesat.
Spacecraft: Hermes Cubesat.
1U cubesat for University of Colorado at Boulder..
- KySat-1 - .
Mass: 1.00 kg (2.20 lb). Nation: USA.
Class: Technology.
Type: Technology satellite. Spacecraft: Cubesat.
University of Kentucky Cubesat..
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