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First flight of a Dual-Engine Centaur on Atlas V. First orbital test flight of Starliner. Planned to visit ISS, but an anomaly with the Starliner vehicle left the spacecraft in too low an orbit to do so. The Atlas V rocket performed as expected and thus the mission is listed as successful here. [160] 82 10 February 2020, 04:03 411 AV-087
The first Atlas V N22, [a] designated AV-080, launched the CST-100 Starliner spacecraft on an uncrewed test flight to the International Space Station. The capsule was intended to dock with the space station, then return to Earth to land in the Western United States after an orbital shakedown cruise ahead of Boeing Crewed Flight Test. [citation ...
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.
The test programme concluded with the final engine test in December 2001. [3] The first launch of a Common Core Booster was the maiden flight of the Atlas V, which was launched from Space Launch Complex 41 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on 21 August 2002. [ 4 ]
The capsule docked with the space station, then returned to Earth to land in the Western United States after an orbital shakedown cruise ahead of Boeing Crewed Flight Test. [9] OFT-2 was the second flight of an Atlas V without a payload fairing and with a dual-engine Centaur upper stage.
Four years overdue, delayed by problems at Blue Origin getting the engine ready, by its own development issues, and by COVID, ULA's Vulcan Centaur rocket finally made its first launch in early 2024.
[120] [121] During a launch of the Atlas V rocket on 22 March 2016, a minor first-stage anomaly led to shutdown of the first-stage engine approximately five seconds before anticipated. The Centaur upper stage was able to compensate by firing for approximately one minute longer than planned using its reserved fuel margin.
The Atlas V can fly in multiple configurations, but only one affects the way Centaur integrates with the booster and fairing: the 5.4 m (18 ft) diameter Atlas V payload fairing attaches to the booster and encapsulates the upper stage and payload, routing fairing-induced aerodynamic loads into the booster. If the 4 m (13 ft) diameter payload ...