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Loading contentAtlas V is an expendable launch vehicle operated by United Launch Alliance that has launched numerous NASA science and planetary missions.
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How Atlas V connects across Asteria Star — scientific, cultural, and astrological links are kept separate.
United Launch Alliance is an American launch service provider, a joint venture of Boeing and Lockheed Martin, that operates the Atlas and Delta families of rockets.
Mars Science Laboratory is the NASA mission that delivered the Curiosity rover to Mars in 2012 to investigate the planet's climate and geology.
MAVEN studies how Mars lost much of its atmosphere to space over billions of years.
InSight was a stationary lander that studied the deep interior of Mars with a seismometer.
Mars rover mission (Perseverance) · NASA · launched 2020.
Juno is a NASA space probe launched in 2011 that entered orbit around Jupiter in 2016 to study the planet's composition, gravity, and magnetic field.
New Horizons is a NASA space probe launched in 2006 that performed the first close flyby of the dwarf planet Pluto in 2015.
OSIRIS-REx collected a sample from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu and returned it to Earth in 2023.
Lucy is touring a record number of asteroids, including several of Jupiter's Trojan asteroids.
A long-running U.S. launch-vehicle family that evolved from an early ICBM into the modern Atlas V operated by United Launch Alliance.
A Cape Canaveral complex used for Titan launches and now the home pad of United Launch Alliance's Atlas V and Vulcan Centaur.
A Russian two-chamber oxidizer-rich staged-combustion RP-1/LOX engine (derived from the RD-170) that powered the Atlas V first stage.
A long-serving expander-cycle LH2/LOX upper-stage engine (first flown in the 1960s) that powers the Centaur and DCSS upper stages and continues on Vulcan Centaur.
United Launch Alliance's successor to the Atlas V and Delta IV families.
A NASA/USGS Landsat satellite carrying the Operational Land Imager and Thermal Infrared Sensor, continuing the multi-decade land-imaging record.
The latest Landsat satellite, launched in 2021 to work in tandem with Landsat 8 for an eight-day global revisit of the land surface.
The first of NOAA's advanced GOES-R geostationary weather satellites, imaging the Western Hemisphere every few minutes for forecasting and storm tracking.
Russia's modular heavy-lift launcher built from common URM core boosters and burning kerosene/LOX, intended to replace the Proton.
A medium-lift rocket operated by Northrop Grumman that launched Cygnus cargo spacecraft to the ISS; the flown Antares 230+ retired in 2023 after its Russian/Ukrainian first-stage supply was cut, pending the U.S.-built Antares 330.
Europe's first launcher, which established independent access to space and orbited the Giotto probe to Halley's Comet.
An uprated single-payload development of Ariane 1 with a more powerful third stage.
An Ariane variant adding two solid strap-on boosters and dual-payload capability for commercial satellites.
A highly successful and flexible Ariane variant with multiple booster configurations that dominated the commercial launch market in the 1990s.
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Mission data, planetary science, space telescopes, and public-domain imagery.
Most NASA-produced imagery is in the public domain; individual items are checked for usage terms before publication.