The last Titan 4B lifted off from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California at 18:05 GMT (2:05 pm EDT). Its national security payload, a new generation of reconnaissance satellite, for the National Reconnaissance Office, separated from the vehicle 11 and a half minutes after lift-off.
P. Corkery, Lockheed Martin.
"Today’s spectacular launch is a fitting way to say goodbye to Titan" - G. Thomas Marsh, executive vice president of Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company.
Lift-off of the Titan 4 rocket has been rescheduled to occur at 18:04 GMT, 19th October.
This will be the last launch of the titan rocket line.
Tomorrows launch will be the 200th Titan to fly from the US West Coast
"This will be a historic day for Vandenberg Air Force Base and the Central Coast of California. The Titan program has been critically important for our nation and we are fortunate to be able to close out this chapter with a final launch of this important system. Even as we bid farewell to the Titan 4, we are very excited as we look forward to our first launches of the new Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicles from Vandenberg" - Col. Jack Weinstein, the base commander.
The Titan 4 rocket will launch from the SLC-4E, Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, US. The four hour launch window starts at 16:00 GMT on October 19th.
A Titan 4B rocket, known as B-26, will launch a classified payload for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office on October 19th. This will be last Titan 4 flight, ending the program that began launches in 1989.
