Atlas H

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]

Atlas H could put a payload of 3,630 kg (8,000 lb) into low Earth orbit, or a payload of 2,255 kg (4,971 lb) into a geostationary transfer orbit.^[3]

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	AJ-60A 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 Martin Marietta Lockheed Martin
Engines	Aerojet NPO Energomash Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne Thiokol

LSPs

Launches

Orbital launch systems
See also: Comparison of orbital launch systems
Current	Angara A5 Antares 230 Ariane 5 Atlas V Delta II IV Electron Epsilon Falcon 9 v1.2 "Full Thrust" GSLV Mk II Mk III H-IIA H-IIB Kuaizhou Long March 2C 2D 2F 3A 3B 3C 4B 4C 5 6 7 11 Minotaur I IV V C Pegasus Proton-M PSLV Rokot Safir Shavit Simorgh Soyuz-FG Soyuz-2 2.1a / STA 2.1b / STB 2-1v SPARK SS-520 Strela Unha Vega Zenit 3SL 3SLB 3F
In development	Angara 1.2 A5P Antares 300 Ariane 6 Cyclone-4M Eris Falcon 9 Block 5 Falcon Heavy H3 ITS KZ-11 KZ-21 Long March 8 9 LauncherOne Mayak Naga-L Naro-2 New Glenn Oril Proton Light Medium RPS SLS Soyuz-5 Sunkar Tronador II ULV Vector-R VLM VLS Alfa VLS Beta Vulcan
Retired	Antares 110/120/130 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 Dnepr Energia Europa Falcon 1 Falcon 9 v1.0 v1.1 Feng Bao 1 GSLV Mk I 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 original L M U U2 Soyuz/Vostok Sputnik Voskhod Vostok L K 2 2M R-29 Shtil' Volna Saturn I IB V INT-21 Scout 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 4 Vanguard VLS-1 Zenit 2 2M

United States orbital launch systems
Active	Antares Atlas V Delta II IV Heavy Falcon 9 v1.2 "Full Thrust" Minotaur I IV V C Pegasus SPARK
In development	Falcon 9 Block 5 Falcon Heavy ITS New Glenn SLS Vulcan
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 v1.1 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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