The events on this day in history for our heritage companies are noted below.
The earliest event was in 1963, the latest event was in 2009
Three milestone events (5 to 65+ years ago)
Human Spaceflight:
NONE
Military and Classified Programs:
1989 – LAUNCH: DSCS II-15, GE DSCS III-A2, Titan 34D/Transtage, LC40, CCAFS, last Transtage flight – MILESTONE: 35 years ago
Exploration and Interplanetary Programs:
NONE
Earth-Monitoring and Civil Weather Satellite programs:
NONE
Commercial Programs:
1997 – LAUNCH: LM GE3, LM Atlas IIAS, LC36A, CCAFS
1999 – LAUNCH: LM Koreasat 3, Ariane 42P, ELA2, Kourou, French Guiana – MILESTONE: 25 years ago
Test, ICBM, FBM programs:
1963- LAUNCH (6): Lockheed Polaris A2, SSBN602, ETR
2009 – LAUNCH: LM Trident D5, SSBN736, ETR – MILESTONE: 15 years ago
Other:
NONE
The images today are an artist’s conception of a DSCS III spacecraft and a schematic of the spacecraft. There is also a photo of an example of the Transtage upper stage. These images were found on Wikipedia and are attributed to public domain (USAF publications, Patrick AFB archives). The last Titan/Transtage flight in 1989 (34D2) launched a DSCS II and DSCS III spacecraft; the DSCS III spacecraft was built by GE Astrospace.
