A two-stage rocket, Atlas V consists of a Common Core Booster (CCB ... allowing it to carry out missions with different size and weight of payload and different target orbits in an efficient ...

number of engines on the upper stage and the size and type of fairing used in order to tailor the rocket’s performance to mission requirements. While Atlas V vehicles were used for the three ...

A rare sight is coming to the Space Coast Tuesday morning. A 196-foot-tall Atlas V rocket will blast off the launch pad on a secret Space Force mission. There's been only one other Atlas V launch ...

SM-65A Atlas ICBM in 1958 Naturally, the Atlas V that’s flying today looks nothing like the squat stainless steel rocket that carried John Glenn to orbit in 1962. Aerospace technology has ...