🚀Launchpad

Atlas IIA

Lockheed Martin

Manufacturer
Lockheed Martin
Family
Atlas, Atlas II
Maiden flight
1992-06-10
Length
47.54 m
Diameter
3.04 m
Payload to LEO
6,580 kg
Payload to GTO
2,810 kg
Launches
23
Successful
23

Atlas II was a member of the Atlas family of launch vehicles, which evolved from the successful Atlas missile program of the 1950s. It was designed to launch payloads into low earth orbit, geosynchronous transfer orbit or geosynchronous orbit. Sixty-three launches of the Atlas II, IIA and IIAS models were carried out between 1991 and 2004; all sixty-three launches were successes, making the Atlas II the most reliable launch system in history.