Atlas V is an expendable launch system in the Atlas rocket family. It was formerly operated by Lockheed Martin and is now operated by United Launch Alliance (ULA), a joint venture with Boeing. Each Atlas V rocket uses a Russian-built RD-180 engine burning kerosene and liquid oxygen to power its first stage and an American-built RL10 engine burning liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen to power its Centaur upper stage. The RD-180 engines are provided by RD Amross, while Aerojet Rocketdyne provides both the RL10 engines and the strap-on boosters used in some configurations. The 421 version uses a 4m wide fairing, 2 solid rocket boosters and one engine on the Centaur stage.
Specifications
- Thrust
- —
- Height
- 58.3 m
- Diameter
- 3.8 m
- Launch mass
- 433 t
- Stages
- 2
- Launch cost
- $123M
- LEO capacity
- 14,067 kg
- GTO capacity
- 6,890 kg
- GEO capacity
- —
- SSO capacity
- —
Vehicle specifications from Launch Library; blanks are unpublished figures.
Flight record
Counted from padside's own launch record — the same basis as the Stats page.
Launches
- Atlas V 421 | SBIRS GEO-6 — Success
- Atlas V 421 | SBIRS GEO-5 — Success
- Atlas V 421 | NROL-52 — Success
- Atlas V 421 | NROL-61 — Success
- Atlas V 421 | Mexsat-2 (Morelos III) — Success