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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 Atlas III (known as the Atlas II-AR (R for Russian) early in development [3]) was an American orbital launch vehicle, used in the years between 2000 and 2005. [4] It was developed from the highly successful Atlas II rocket and shared many components. [ 1 ]
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 ...
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 ...
Space Launch Complex 3 (SLC-3) is a launch site at Vandenberg Space Force Base that consists of two separate launch pads. Space Launch Complex 3 East (SLC-3E) was used by the Atlas V launch vehicle before it was decommissioned in August 2021 with the final launch taking place on November 10, 2022, at 09:49, while Space Launch Complex 3 West (SLC-3W) has been demolished.
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 ...
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