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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)
Landsat 9 is an Earth observation satellite launched on 27 September 2021 from Space Launch Complex-3E at Vandenberg Space Force Base on an Atlas V 401 launch vehicle. [12] NASA is in charge of building, launching, and testing the satellite, while the United States Geological Survey (USGS) operates the satellite, and manages and distributes the data archive. [13]
The last Atlas E/F spacecraft launch was conducted on 24 March 1995, using a rocket which had originally been built as an Atlas-E. The last Atlas E/F launch to use a rocket which had originally been built as an Atlas-F was conducted on 23 June 1981. [13] Atlas E/F was used to launch the Block I series of GPS satellites from 1978 to 1985. The ...
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 .
The message recorded of Eisenhower.. SCORE (Signal Communications by Orbiting Relay Equipment) was the world's first purpose-built communications satellite.Launched aboard an American Atlas rocket on December 18, 1958, SCORE provided the second test of a communications relay system in space (the first having been provided by the USAF/NASA's Pioneer 1), [3] the first broadcast of a human voice ...
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket lifted off early Tuesday morning from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station carrying payloads for both NASA and the U.S. Space Force. Liftoff occurred before ...
Rocket Launch site Payload Payload mass Orbit Customer Launch outcome AV-052 January 21, 2015, 01:04 Atlas V 551: CCAFS SLC-41: MUOS-3: 6,740 kg GTO: DoD: Success [34] Third Mobile User Objective System satellite; 200th Atlas-Centaur launch. AV-053 March 13, 2015, 02:44 Atlas V 421: CCAFS SLC-41: MMS: 1,360 kg HTO: NASA: Success [35] NASA ...
United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with Boeing's CST-100 Starliner spacecraft aboard illuminated by spotlights on the launch pad (Joel Kowsky / Nasa via AFP - Getty Images)