Atlas LV-3B
Atlas family · National Aeronautics and Space Administration · Retired
The Atlas LV-3B, Atlas D Mercury Launch Vehicle or Mercury-Atlas Launch Vehicle, was a human-rated expendable launch system used as part of the United States Project Mercury to send astronauts into low Earth orbit. Manufactured by American aircraft manufacturing company Convair, it was derived from the SM-65D Atlas missile, and was a member of the Atlas family of rockets.
Specifications
- Thrust
- 1,300 kN
- Height
- 28.7 m
- Diameter
- 3 m
- Launch mass
- 120 t
- Stages
- 1
- Launch cost
- —
- LEO capacity
- 1,360 kg
- GTO capacity
- —
- GEO capacity
- —
- SSO capacity
- —
Vehicle specifications from Launch Library; blanks are unpublished figures.
Flight record
Flights
10
Launches with a definitive outcome
Success rate
70%
7 of 10
Current success streak
6
Landings
0
0 attempts · 0 droneship / 0 RTLS
Fastest turnaround
—
Between consecutive booster flights
Counted from padside's own launch record — the same basis as the Stats page.
Launches
- Atlas LV-3B | Mercury-Atlas 9 — Success
- Atlas LV-3B | Mercury-Atlas 8 — Success
- Atlas LV-3B | Mercury-Atlas 7 — Success
- Atlas LV-3B | Mercury-Atlas 6 — Success
- Atlas LV-3B | Mercury-Atlas 5 — Success