LAUNCHER INFO

The SM-65D Atlas, or Atlas D, was the first operational version of the U.S. Atlas missile. Atlas D was first used as an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) to deliver a nuclear weapon payload on a suborbital trajectory. It was later developed as a launch vehicle to carry a payload to low Earth orbit on its own, and later to geosynchronous orbit, to the Moon, Venus, or Mars with the Agena or Centaur upper stage.

MANUFACTURER INFO

Convair

LAUNCHER SPECIFICATIONS

(diameter)

3 m

TO GTO

null kg

(length)

25.15 m

TO LEO

1400 kg

(reusable)

false

LAUNCH STATISTICS