Flights
As of 2007, the following missions have used the IUS rocket, most of them from the Space Shuttle, especially after the Shuttle version of the Centaur upper stage was banned due to an after effect of the Challenger Disaster in 1986.
| S/N | Launch Date | Launch Vehicle | Payload | Remarks | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 1982-10-30 | Titan III(34)D | DSCS II F-16/III A-1 | Mission successful despite telemetry loss for most of the flight. | |
| 1 | 1983-04-04 | Space Shuttle Challenger (STS-6) |
TDRS-1 (TDRS-A) | Second stage tumbled due to a control system failure, resulting in incorrect orbit. Spacecraft manoeuvred itself into final orbit | |
| 11 | 1985-01-24 | Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-51-C) |
USA-8 (Magnum) | Classified DoD payload | |
| 12 | 1985-10-03 | Space Shuttle Atlantis (STS-51-J) |
USA-11/12 (DSCS) | Classified DoD payload | |
| 3 | 1986-01-28 | Space Shuttle Challenger (STS-51-L) |
TDRS-B | Destroyed during launch, IUS not fired | |
| 7 | 1988-09-29 | Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-26) |
TDRS-3 (TDRS-C) | ||
| 9 | 1989-03-13 | Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-29) |
TDRS-4 (TDRS-D) | ||
| 18 | 1989-05-04 | Space Shuttle Atlantis (STS-30) |
Magellan | Probe to Venus | |
| 8 | 1989-06-14 | Titan IV(402)A | USA-39 (DSP) | ||
| 19 | 1989-10-18 | Space Shuttle Atlantis (STS-34) |
Galileo | Probe to Jupiter | |
| 5 | 1989-11-23 | Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-33) |
USA-48 (Magnum) | Classified DoD payload | |
| 17 | 1990-10-06 | Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-41) |
Ulysses | ||
| 6 | 1990-11-13 | Titan IV(402)A | USA-65 (DSP) | ||
| 15 | 1991-08-02 | Space Shuttle Atlantis (STS-43) |
TDRS-5 (TDRS-E) | ||
| 14 | 1991-11-24 | Space Shuttle Atlantis (STS-44) |
USA-75 (DSP) | ||
| 13 | 1993-01-13 | Space Shuttle Endeavour (STS-54) |
TDRS-6 (TDRS-F) | ||
| 20 | 1994-12-22 | Titan IV(402)A | USA-107 (DSP) | ||
| 26 | 1995-07-13 | Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-70) |
TDRS-7 (TDRS-G) | ||
| 4 | 1997-02-23 | Titan IV(402)B | USA-130 (DSP) | ||
| 21 | 1999-04-09 | Titan IV(402)B | USA-142 (DSP) | IUS first and second stages failed to separate, payload placed into useless orbit | |
| 27 | 1999-07-23 | Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-93) |
Chandra | ||
| 22 | 2000-05-08 | Titan IV(402)B | USA-149 (DSP) | ||
| 16 | 2001-08-06 | Titan IV(402)B | USA-159 (DSP) | ||
| 10 | 2004-02-14 | Titan IV(402)B | USA-176 (DSP) |
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Famous quotes containing the word flights:
“A noble soul is not the one that can manage the highest flights but the one that rises very little and falls very little but always dwells in a free, resplendent atmosphere and altitude.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“Franklin said once in one of his inspired flights of malignity—
Early to bed and early to rise
Make a man healthy and wealth and wise.
As if it were any object to a boy to be healthy and wealthy and wise on such terms.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“Now cracks a noble heart. Good night, sweet prince,
And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)