Launch vehicle · United Launch Alliance
Atlas V
RocketsMedium-lift
Imagery
InSight Atlas V LVOS
A crane lifts a United Launch Alliance Atlas V booster at Space Launch Complex 3 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
2018
NASA/Kennedy · NASA media (public domain)
Overview
An expendable launch vehicle by United Launch Alliance that has flown many NASA science and planetary missions.
Components & hardware
Knowledge connections
- Operated byUnited Launch Alliance
- LaunchedMars Science Laboratory
- LaunchedMAVEN
- LaunchedInSight
- LaunchedMars 2020
- LaunchedJuno
- LaunchedNew Horizons
- LaunchedOSIRIS-REx
- LaunchedLucy
- Member of familyAtlas
- Launched fromSpace Launch Complex 41
- Powered byRD-180
- Powered byRL10
- Replaced byVulcan Centaur
- Basis forVulcan Centaur
- LaunchedLandsat 8
- LaunchedLandsat 9
- LaunchedGOES-16
Sources
The primary and reference sources this topic draws on.
- ULAUnited Launch Alliance
Atlas V, Delta IV, and Vulcan Centaur — manufacturer specifications and mission data.