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This is a list of launches made by the Atlas rocket family, derived from the SM-65 Atlas ICBM. The currently operational variant, Atlas V, has flown 81 consecutive missions without failure between October 2007 and January 2022. Due to the size of the list, it has been split by decade: List of Atlas launches (1957–1959)
This was the first launch of the Atlas V 551 configuration with five solid rocket boosters, and the first Atlas V with a third stage. [ 184 ] On 6 December 2015, Atlas V lifted its heaviest payload to date into orbit – a 16,517 lb (7,492 kg) Cygnus resupply craft .
Eighth GPS Block IIF navigation satellite. 50th Atlas V launch. AV-051 December 13, 2014, 03:19 Atlas V 541: VAFB SLC-3E: USA-259 Classified Molniya: NRO: Success [33]
ULA launched its Atlas V rocket with payloads for the U.S. Space Force and Department of Defense from LC-41 Friday, July 1, at 7:17 p.m.
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Lockheed Martin continued to market the Atlas V to commercial customers until September 2021, when it announced that the rocket will be retired after fulfilling the remaining 29 launch contracts. [20] [21] Atlas V is built in Decatur, Alabama, and maintains two launch sites: Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and ...
Mission controllers declared Monday’s launch “scrub” after an anomaly was detected on a valve on United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rocket, which the Starliner capsule was to ride into orbit.
Atlas V 431 CCAFS SLC-41: Inmarsat-4 F1: 5,959 kg GTO: Success [30] Commercial mobile communications satellite. AV-007 August 12, 2005 11:43:00 Atlas V 401 CCAFS SLC-41: MRO: 2,180 kg Heliocentric: NASA Success [31] NASA Mars imaging probe. First interplanetary Atlas V launch.