List of Atlas V launches

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This page is a list of launches of the Atlas V rocket. For more information as a whole, see Atlas V.

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[edit] Atlas V Flights

[edit] Past launches

List updated: April 2008.

Date Type Serial-No. Launch Site Payload Kind of Payload Orbit Outcome Remarks
2002-08-21 401 AV-001 CC LC-41 Hot Bird 6 Commercial comsat GSO Success First Atlas V launch
2003-05-13 401 AV-002 CC LC-41 HellasSat 2 Commercial comsat GSO Success
2003-07-17 521 AV-003 CC LC-41 Rainbow 1 Commercial comsat GSO Success First Atlas V 500 launch
2004-12-17 521 AV-005 CC LC-41 AMC 16 Commercial comsat GSO Success
2005-03-11 431 AV-004 CC LC-41 Inmarsat-4 F1 Commercial comsat GSO Success
2005-08-12 401 AV-007 CC LC-41 Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) Mars orbiter Escape Success First Atlas V launch for NASA
2006-01-19 551 AV-010 CC LC-41 New Horizons Pluto and Kuiper Belt probe Escape Success Boeing Star 48B third stage used, first Atlas V launch with a third stage
2006-04-20 411 AV-008 CC LC-41 ASTRA 1KR Commercial comsat GSO Success Final Atlas commercial launch for ILS
2007-03-08 401 AV-013 CC LC-41 STP-1, FalconSAT-3, etc 6 military research satellites LEO Success
2007-06-15 401 AV-009 CC LC-41 NROL-30R (NOSS-4-3A & B) 2 NRO Reconnaissance satellites LEO Partial Success (premature cutoff of Centaur upper stage) First Atlas V flight for the National Reconnaissance Office
2007-10-10 421 AV-011 CC LC-41 WGS F1 Military comsat GSO Success
2007-12-10 401 AV-015 CC LC-41 NROL-24 Reconnaissance satellite Molniya Success
2008-03-13 411 AV-006 VAFB SLC-3E NROL-28 Reconnaissance satellite Molniya Success First Atlas V launch from Vandenberg
2008-04-14 421 AV-014 CC LC-41 ICO G1 Commercial comsat GTO Success Heaviest payload to be launched by an Atlas rocket.

[edit] Planned launches

Date Type Serial-No. Launch Site Payload Kind of Payload Orbit Outcome Remarks
2008-09-18[1] 401 VAFB SLC-3E DMSP-5D3 F18 Military weather satellite LEO
2008-10-10[1] 421 CC LC-41 WGS-2 Comsat GTO
2008-11-24 (NET)[2][1] 401 CC LC-41 Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) Lunar orbit and Lunar impactor HEO Press release
2008-12-01 (NET)[2] Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) Solar Observatory
2008 (NET)[3] 401 CC LC-41 GPS-IIF-1 Navigation MEO
2009-10-27 541 CC LC-41 Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Mars rover Heliocentric Press release
October 2009 521 (TBC) VAFB SLC-3E NROL-34 Reconnaissance satellite Unknown
2009 401 CC LC-41 SBIRS-GEO-1 Missile warning GTO
2009 431 CC LC-41 Inmarsat-4 F3 (TBC) Comsat GTO
2009 531 CC LC-41 AEHF-1 Comsat GTO
2009 531 CC LC-41 AEHF-2 Comsat GTO
2009[3] 401 CC LC-41 GPS-IIF-3 Navigation MEO
2009[3] 401 CC LC-41 GPS-IIF-4 Navigation MEO
2010 501 NROL-41 Reconnaissance satellite Unknown
2010 401 CC LC-41 SBIRS-GEO-2 Missile warning GTO
2010 541 CC LC-41 MUOS-2 Comsat GTO
2010[3] 401 CC LC-41 GPS-IIF-6 Navigation MEO
2010[3] 401 CC LC-41 GPS-IIF-7 Navigation MEO
2010[3] 401 CC LC-41 GPS-IIF-8 Navigation MEO
July 2011[4] 401 VAFB SLC-3E Landsat-DCM Remote sensing LEO
August 2011 551 CC LC-41 Juno Jupiter orbiter Heliocentric
2011 541 CC LC-41 MUOS-2 Comsat GTO

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