Atlas H

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**Atlas H**
Launch history
Launch of the last Atlas H with NOSS-9.
Function	Expendable launch system
Manufacturer	Convair General Dynamics
Country of origin	United States
Status	Retired
Launch sites	SLC-3E, Vandenberg
Total launches	5
Successes	5
First flight	9 February 1983
Last flight	15 May 1987

The Atlas H was an American expendable launch system derived from the SM-65 Atlas missile. It was a member of the Atlas family of rockets, and was used to launch five clusters of NOSS satellites for the US National Reconnaissance Office. Two flights also carried LIPS satellites, as secondary payloads for the United States Naval Research Laboratory.

The Atlas H was a stage and a half rocket, using the enhanced Atlas rocket designed for use as the first stage of the Atlas G rocket,^[1] which differed from the Atlas H in having a Centaur upper stage. This stage was later reused as the first stage of the Atlas I. In practice, an MSD upper stage was flown on all five launches.^[2]

References

Atlas rockets

Main articles

Rockets

Prototypes

Missiles

Launch systems

Alphabetical	Atlas B Atlas D Atlas E/F Atlas G Atlas H

Upper stages	Atlas-Able Atlas-Agena Atlas-Centaur

Numerical	Atlas I Atlas II Atlas III Atlas V

Other	Atlas LV-3B Atlas SLV-3 GX

Launch sites

Cape Canaveral	LC-11 LC-12 LC-13 LC-14 (S)LC-36 SLC-41

Vandenberg	LC-576 SLC-3 SLC-4

Bases	Altus Dyess Fairchild Forbes Francis E. Warren Lincoln Offutt Plattsburgh Schilling Walker

Components

Boosters	Aerojet SRM Castor 4A MA

First stages	Common Core Booster

Upper stages	Able Agena Altair Burner Centaur IABS MSD OIS PTS SGS Star SVS Trident

Engines	AJ-10 B-8048 B-8081 B-8096 LR-89 LR-105 R-4D RD-180 RL10 RS-56

Corporations

Manufacturers

Rocket	Convair General Dynamics Lockheed Lockheed Martin

Engines	Aerojet NPO Energomash Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne Thiokol

LSPs

Launches

1957-1959
1960-1969
1970-1979
1980-1989
1990-1999
2000-2009
2010-2019

v t e Orbital launch systems

Current	Antares Ariane 5 Atlas V Delta II IV Dnepr-1 Epsilon Falcon 9 v1.1 GSLV H-IIA H-IIB Kuaizhou Long March 2C 2D 2F 3A 3B 3C 4B 4C Minotaur I IV V Pegasus Proton-M PSLV Rokot Safir Shavit Strela Soyuz U FG 2 2-1v Taurus Unha Vega VLS-1 Zenit 2M 3SL 3SLB 3F

Planned	Angara Ariane 6 Athena Ic IIc III Ausroc IV Falcon 9-R Falcon Heavy GSLV Mk III Haas Long March 5 6 7 9 11 LauncherOne Naro-2 RPS (420, 550) Simorgh SLS Southern Cross SPARK Tsyklon-4 VLM VLS-Alfa VLS-Beta

Retired	Ariane 1 2 3 4 ASLV Athena I II Atlas B D E/F G H I II III LV-3B SLV-3 Able Agena Centaur Black Arrow Conestoga Delta A B C D E G J L M N 0100 1000 2000 3000 4000 5000 III Diamant Energia Europa Falcon 1 Falcon 9 v1.0 Feng Bao 1 H-I H-II Juno I Juno II Kaituozhe-1 Kosmos 1 2I 3 3M Lambda 4S Long March 1 2A 2E 3 4A Mu 4S 3C 3H 3S 3SII V N1 N-I N-II Naro-1 Paektusan Pilot Proton UR-500 K R-7 Luna Molniya M L Polyot Soyuz L M U2 Soyuz/Vostok Sputnik Voskhod Vostok L K 2 2M Saturn I IB V INT-21 Scout Shtil' SLV Space Shuttle Sparta Start-1 Thor Able Ablestar Agena Burner Delta DSV-2U Thorad-Agena Titan II GLV IIIA IIIB IIIC IIID IIIE 34D 23G CT-3 IV Tsyklon 2 3 Vanguard Volna Zenit-2

v t e United States orbital launch systems

Active	Antares Atlas V Delta II IV Falcon 9 v1.1 Minotaur I IV V Pegasus Taurus

In development	Athena Ic IIc III Falcon 9-R Falcon Heavy SLS SPARK

Retired	Ares I V Athena I II Atlas B D E/F G H I II III LV-3B SLV-3 Able Agena Centaur Conestoga Delta A B C D E G J L M N 0100 1000 2000 3000 4000 5000 III Falcon 1 Falcon 9 v1.0 H-I* Juno I Juno II N-I* N-II* Pilot Saturn I IB V INT-21 Scout Shuttle Sparta Thor Able Ablestar Agena Burner Delta DSV-2U Thorad-Agena Titan II GLV IIIA IIIB IIIC IIID IIIE 34D 23G CT-3 IV Vanguard

* - Japanese projects using US rockets or stages

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