Atlas V launches

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[edit] Past launches

An Atlas V 551 with the New Horizons Deep Space Probe launches from Lauch Pad 41 in Cape Canaveral.
An Atlas V 551 with the New Horizons Deep Space Probe launches from Lauch Pad 41 in Cape Canaveral.

List Date: March 2007

Date Type Serial-no. Startplace Payload Kind of payload Orbit Outcome Remarks
August 21, 2002 401 AV-001 CC LC41 Hot Bird 6 Commercial communications satellite GSO Success First Atlas V launch
May 13 2003 401 AV-002 CC LC41 HellasSat 2 Commercial communications satellite GSO Success
July 17, 2003 521 AV-003 CC LC41 Rainbow 1 Commercial communications satellite GSO Success First Atlas V 500 launch
December 17, 2004 521 AV-005 CC LC41 AMC 16 Commercial communications satellite GSO Success
March 11, 2005 431 AV-004 CC LC41 Inmarsat 4-F1 Commercial communications satellite GSO Success
August 12, 2005 401 AV-007 CC LC41 Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Mars orbiter escape Success First Atlas V launch for NASA
January 19, 2006 551 AV-010 CC LC41 New Horizons Pluto and Kuiper Belt probe escape Success Boeing Star 48B third stage used, first Atlas V launch with a third stage
April 20, 2006 411 AV-008 CC LC41 ASTRA 1KR Commercial communications satellite GSO Success Final Atlas commercial launch for ILS
8 March 2007 401 AV-013 CC LC41 Space Test Program-1 6 military research satellites multiple Success FalconSAT-3

[edit] Planned launches

List Date: March 2007

Date Type Serial-no. Launch site Payload Kind of payload Remarks
May 2007 401 AV-009 CC LC41 NROL-30 NRO Reconnaissance satellite
June 2007 421 AV-011 CC LC41 WGS F1 Military communications satellite
August 2007 421 AV-014 CC LC41 ICO G1 Commercial communications satellite
2007 411 AV-006 VAFB SLC-3E NROL-28 NRO Reconnaissance satellite First Atlas V launch from Vandenberg
Late 2007 401 - VAFB SLC-3E DMSP-18 Military weather satellite
2008 401 - CC LC41 Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) Lunar orbit and Lunar impactor Press release
Late 2009 541 - CC LC41 Mars Science Laboratory Mars rover Press release

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