📊 Analysis

Statistics & insights on rockets and organizations — technology, history, numbers.

Rocket

Organization

Atlas SLV-3 Burner-2

Retired

Convair

Total launches

Successes

Failures

Success rate

50.0 %

Success streak

Maiden flight

Aug 16, 1968

Reusable

Shortest launch interval ⓘ

1507d 23h

Planned launches

Atlas family total

87 launches · 68 successes · 19 failures (11 variants)

Automatic plausibility checks — anomalies are surfaced transparently here:

ℹ️The figures above apply only to the “Atlas SLV-3 Burner-2” variant. The Launch Library counts each variant separately — the Atlas family totals 87 launches across 11 variants.

Length

21 m

Diameter

3.05 m

Launch mass

120 t

Liftoff thrust

3,824 kN

Stages

LEO (low Earth orbit)

800 kg

of which in our database: 2

Successes Failures Other/planned