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Specifications
- Status
- active
- Height
- 58.3 m
- Diameter
- 3.81 m
- Mass
- 590,000 kg
- Stages
- 2
- Thrust
- 7,203 kN
- Payload to LEO
- 13,490 kg
- Payload to GTO
- 6,475 kg
- First flight
- 2003-07-17
- Total launches
- 2
- Success / Fail
- 2 / 0
Atlas V is the fifth major version in the Atlas rocket family. It is an expendable launch system originally designed by Lockheed Martin, now being operated by United Launch Alliance (ULA), a joint venture between Lockheed and Boeing.
Propulsion
Boosters
GEM 631,663 kN
solid (HTPB) · solid
Northrop GrummanIsp 279s (vac)since 20200–5 strap-ons
First stage
RD-1803,830 kN
RP-1 / LOX · staged-combustion
NPO EnergomashIsp 338s (vac)since 2000
Second stage
RL10110 kN
LH2 / LOX · expander
Aerojet RocketdyneIsp 451s (vac)since 1963Centaur
Payloads it launched
2 loaded