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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...