The SM-65D Atlas, or Atlas D, was the first operational version of the U.S. Atlas missile. Atlas D was first used as an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) to deliver a nuclear weapon payload on a suborbital trajectory. It was later developed as a launch vehicle to carry a payload to low Earth orbit on its own, and later to geosynchronous orbit, to the Moon, Venus, or Mars with the Agena or Centaur upper stage.
Specifications
- Thrust
- 1,880 kN
- Height
- 25.15 m
- Diameter
- 3 m
- Launch mass
- 119 t
- Stages
- 1
- Launch cost
- —
- LEO capacity
- 1,400 kg
- GTO capacity
- —
- GEO capacity
- —
- SSO capacity
- —
Vehicle specifications from Launch Library; blanks are unpublished figures.
Flight record
Flights
9
Launches with a definitive outcome
Success rate
66.7%
6 of 9
Current success streak
0
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 D | OV1-11,12,86 — Failure
- Atlas D | OV1-9 & 10 — Success
- Atlas D | OV1-7 — Success
- Atlas D | OV1-4 & 5 — Success
- Atlas D | OV1-2 — Success