An aerial view of LC-41. The Atlas V on the pad is the one used to launch New Horizons to Pluto.

Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 41 (LC-41) is an active Launch Site at Merritt Island, Cape Canaveral, Florida. The site is currently used by International Launch Services, for Atlas V launches. Previously, it had been used by the US Air Force, for Titan III and Titan IV launches. The Bumper V-2 was the first missile launched at Cape Canaveral on July 24, 1950. ... Merritt Islands two spaceports are shown side-by-side on this map. ... Merritt Island is: An island (strictly, part of a peninsula) in Brevard County, Florida, on Floridas Atlantic coast a town located on the island Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, also located on the island The island Merritt Island is not strictly an island at all, but part of a... Cape Canaveral from space, August 1991 Cape Canaveral (Cabo Cañaveral in Spanish) is a strip of land in Brevard County, Florida, United States, near the center of that states Atlantic coast. ... Official language(s) English Capital Tallahassee Largest city Jacksonville Area  Ranked 22nd  - Total 65,794 sq mi (170,451 km²)  - Width 162 miles (260 km)  - Length 497 miles (800 km)  - % water 17. ... International Launch Services (or ILS)is a partnership between American defense contractor Lockheed Martin, and the Russian firm, Khrunichev, and RSC Energia for the purpose of co-marketing their respective rocket launch services. ... Mercury Atlas 9 rocket and capsule on pad The Atlas is a venerable line of space launch vehicles built by Lockheed Martin. ... Seal of the Air Force. ... Mission The Titan IIIC is a space booster used by the United States Air Force. ... The Titan IV family (including the IVA and IVB) of space boosters are used by the US Air Force. ...

The first launch from LC-41 was a Titan IIIC, carrying four separate payloads, on December 21, 1965. December 21 is the 355th day of the year (356th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). ...

In addition to satellites, several probes were launched from LC-41 in the 1970s, including the Helios probes to the Sun, the Viking probes to Mars, and the Voyager planetary flyby and deep space probes. More recent probes have also been launched from LC-41 using the Atlas V - The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in December 2004, and the New Horizons spacecraft to Pluto in January 2006. Prototype of the Helios spacecraft Helios I sitting atop its Titan IIIE Centaur launcher (LC-41, CCAFS, 1974) The Helios deep space probes were launched in the mid 1970s by the Federal Republic of Germany and NASA, using US Air Force launch vehicles. ... The Sun is the star at the center of our solar system. ... NASAs Viking program consisted of two unmanned space missions to Mars, Viking 1 and Viking 2. ... The Voyager spacecraft Launch of Voyager 2 Voyager is also the name of a planned series of unmanned probes to Mars, cancelled in 1968. ... NASAs Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is a multipurpose spacecraft designed to conduct reconnaissance and exploration of Mars from orbit. ... ← - 2004 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- → Deaths in December • 30 Artie Shaw • 29 Julius Axelrod • 28 Jacques Dupuis • 28 Jerry Orbach • 28 Susan Sontag • 26 Reggie White • 26 Sir Angus Ogilvy • 23 P. V. Narasimha Rao • 23 Doug Ault • 19 Renata Tebaldi • 16... New Horizons is a NASA unmanned mission to fly by Pluto and its moons. ... Adjective Plutonian Atmospheric characteristics Atmospheric pressure 0. ... January 2006 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- → 31 January 2006 (Tuesday) U.S. President George W. Bush delivers the State of the Union Address to a joint session of the U.S. Congress (the House of Representatives and the Senate). ...

LC-41 also was the pad used for the maiden flight of the Titan IV. The last Titan launch was on April 9, 1999, when a Titan IVB launched the USA 142 early warning satellite. This launch resulted in a failure, after the IUS upper stage failed to separate, leaving the payload stranded in a useless GTO orbit. The complex was then renovated, and is now used by ILS for Atlas V launches. April 9 is the 99th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (100th in leap years). ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... A geostationary transfer orbit (GTO) is a Hohmann transfer orbit around the Earth between a low Earth orbit (LEO) and a geostationary orbit (GEO). ...

See Also

• Merritt Island
• List of Merritt Island launch sites
• Atlas V
• Titan III
• Titan IV