List of Atlas launches (2020–2029)

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List of Atlas launches
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Notable missions

Solar Orbiter

This paragraph is an excerpt from Solar Orbiter.[edit]

The Solar Orbiter (SolO)^[1] is a Sun-observing probe developed by the European Space Agency (ESA) with a National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) contribution. Solar Orbiter, designed to obtain detailed measurements of the inner heliosphere and the nascent solar wind, will also perform close observations of the polar regions of the Sun which is difficult to do from Earth. These observations are important in investigating how the Sun creates and controls its heliosphere.

Mars 2020

This paragraph is an excerpt from Mars 2020.[edit]

Mars 2020 is a NASA mission that includes the rover Perseverance, the now-retired small robotic helicopter Ingenuity, and associated delivery systems, as part of the Mars Exploration Program. Mars 2020 was launched on an Atlas V rocket at 11:50:01 UTC on July 30, 2020,^[2] and landed in the Martian crater Jezero on February 18, 2021, with confirmation received at 20:55 UTC.^[3] On March 5, 2021, NASA named the landing site Octavia E. Butler Landing.^[4] As of 16 August 2025, Perseverance has been on Mars for 1596 sols (1640 total days; 4 years, 179 days).^{[5][6][7][8][9]} Ingenuity operated on Mars for 1042 sols (1071 total days; 2 years, 341 days) before sustaining serious damage to its rotor blades, possibly all four, causing NASA to retire the craft on January 25, 2024.^[10][11]

Landsat 9

This paragraph is an excerpt from Landsat 9.[edit]

Landsat 9 is an Earth observation satellite launched on 27 September 2021 from Space Launch Complex-3E at Vandenberg Space Force Base on an Atlas V 401 launch vehicle.^[12] NASA is in charge of building, launching, and testing the satellite, while the United States Geological Survey (USGS) operates the satellite, and manages and distributes the data archive.^[13] It is the ninth satellite developed in the Landsat program, and eighth to reach orbit (Landsat 6 failed to reach orbit). The Critical Design Review (CDR) was completed by NASA in April 2018, and Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems (NGIS) was given the go-ahead to manufacture the satellite.^[14]

Lucy

This paragraph is an excerpt from Lucy (spacecraft).[edit]

Lucy is a NASA space probe on a twelve-year journey to eight different asteroids. It is slated to visit two main belt asteroids as well as six Jupiter trojans – asteroids that share Jupiter's orbit around the Sun, orbiting either ahead of or behind the planet.^[15][16] All target encounters will be flyby encounters.^[17]

Boeing Crew Flight Test

This paragraph is an excerpt from Boeing Crew Flight Test.[edit]

Boeing Crew Flight Test (Boe-CFT) was the first crewed mission of the Boeing Starliner capsule. Launched on 5 June 2024, the mission flew a crew of two NASA astronauts, Barry E. Wilmore and Sunita Williams, from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station to the International Space Station. The mission was meant to last eight days, ending on 14 June with a landing in the American Southwest. However, Starliner's thrusters malfunctioned as it approached the ISS. After more than two months of investigation, NASA decided it was too risky to return Wilmore and Williams to Earth aboard Starliner. Instead, the Boeing spacecraft returned uncrewed on 7 September 2024 and successfully landed at the White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico. The astronauts rode down aboard SpaceX Crew-9 on 18 March 2025.

Launch statistics

Rocket configurations

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2021

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2025

•   Atlas V 401
•   Atlas V 411
•   Atlas V 421
•   Atlas V 431
•   Atlas V 501
•   Atlas V 511
•   Atlas V 531
•   Atlas V 541
•   Atlas V 551
•   Atlas V N22

Launch sites

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•   Cape Canaveral, SLC‑41
•   Vandenberg, SLC‑3E

Launch outcomes

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•   Failure
•   Partial failure
•   Success
•   Planned

Launch history

2020

Flight No.	Date / time (UTC)	Rocket, Configuration	Launch site	Payload	Payload mass (kg)	Orbit	Customer	Launch outcome
AV-087	10 February 2020, 04:03	Atlas V 411	Cape Canaveral, SLC-41	Solar Orbiter	1,800	Heliocentric	ESA	Success[18]
	ESA/NASA Heliophysics probe
AV-086	26 March 2020, 20:18	Atlas V 551	Cape Canaveral, SLC-41	USA-298 (AEHF-6, TDO-2)	6,168	GTO	US Space Force	Success[19]
	Sixth and final Advanced Extremely High Frequency military communications satellite
AV-081	17 May 2020, 13:14	Atlas V 501	Cape Canaveral, SLC-41	USA-299 (X-37B OTV-6, FalconSat-8)	~5,000	LEO	United States Space Force	Success[20]
	Sixth flight of the X-37B military spaceplane; first with a service module, plus FalconSat-8 satellite.
AV-088	30 July 2020, 11:50	Atlas V 541	Cape Canaveral, SLC-41	Mars 2020 (inc Perseverance, Ingenuity)	3,839	Heliocentric	NASA	Success[21]
	Spacecraft for NASA's Mars 2020 mission.
AV-090	13 November 2020, 22:32	Atlas V 531	Cape Canaveral, SLC-41	USA-310 (NROL-101)	Un­known	MEO[a]	NRO	Success[22]
	Unknown National Reconnaissance Office payload, first Atlas launch with updated GEM-63 strap-on solid rocket boosters. Originally thought to be a Molniya mission. Later sightings instead pointed towards a MEO mission. Likely an experimental payload.

2021

Flight No.	Date / time (UTC)	Rocket, Configuration	Launch site	Payload	Payload mass (kg)	Orbit	Customer	Launch outcome
AV-091	18 May 2021, 17:37	Atlas V 421	Cape Canaveral, SLC-41	USA 315 (SBIRS GEO-5)	~4,500[23]	GTO	United States Space Force	Success[24]
	Fifth Space-Based Infrared System Geostationary satellite.
AV-092	27 September 2021, 18:12	Atlas V 401	Vandenberg, SLC-3E	Landsat 9 L9EFS	2,711[25] +510 kg	SSO	NASA / USGS	Success[26]
	Eighth Landsat geological survey satellite in orbit. Additionally launched the U.S. Space Force (USSF) Landsat-9 ESPA Flight System (L9EFS) which delivered several additional cubesats to orbit as a result of a cooperative engagement between NASA and U.S. Space Force to increase access to space for small satellite systems.[27]
AV-096	16 October 2021, 09:34	Atlas V 401	Cape Canaveral, SLC-41	Lucy	1,550	Heliocentric	NASA	Success[28]
	NASA mission to explore six Jupiter trojan asteroids.[29] Final interplanetary mission launched by the Atlas rocket family.
AV-093	7 December 2021, 10:19	Atlas V 551	Cape Canaveral, SLC-41	STP-3 (STPSat-6 & LDPE-1)	Un­known	GEO	United States Space Force	Success[30]
	The primary payload is the STPSat-6 satellite carrying SABRS-3, NASA's LCRD, and seven Defense Department Space Experiments Review Board space weather and situational awareness payloads. Alongside STPSat-6 was an integrated propulsive EELV Secondary Payload Adapter (IP-ESPA) holding up to six payloads.[31] The STP-3 mission also debuted three engineering features designed to reduce risk and accumulate flight experience before use on Vulcan Centaur: an Out-of-Autoclave (OoA) payload fairings, an in-flight power system and GPS enhanced navigation.[32] The launch was delayed multiple times, first in January due to the launch readiness of the STPSat-6 satellite,[33] in June due to some ringing of the RL10-C's new carbon nozzle extension observed during the SBIRS GEO-5 mission,[34] and in November due to a space vehicle processing issue.[35]

2022

Flight No.	Date / time (UTC)	Rocket, Configuration	Launch site	Payload	Payload mass (kg)	Orbit	Customer	Launch outcome
AV-084	21 January 2022, 19:00	Atlas V 511	Cape Canaveral, SLC-41	USSF-8 (GSSAP 5 & 6)	Un­known	GEO	United States Space Force	Success[36]
	USSF-8 launched two identical Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness satellites, GSSAP-5 and 6, directly to a geosynchronous orbit.[37] First and only flight of 511 configuration.
AV-095	1 March 2022, 21:38	Atlas V 541	Cape Canaveral, SLC-41	GOES-T	5,200	GTO	NOAA	Success[38]
	GOES meteorological satellite. GOES-T, which will be renamed GOES-18 once it reaches geostationary orbit, will replace GOES-17 as NOAA's operational GOES West satellite.[39]
AV-082	19 May 2022, 22:54	Atlas V N22	Cape Canaveral, SLC-41	Boeing Orbital Flight Test 2 (Boeing Starliner S2.1)	~13,000	LEO (ISS)	Boeing	Success[40]
	Atlas V releases the Starliner spacecraft on a transatmospheric orbit[41] with apogee of 181 km and a perigee of 72 km.[42] Starliner used its own engines to enter low Earth orbit and make its way to the International Space Station.
AV-094	1 July 2022, 23:15	Atlas V 541	Cape Canaveral, SLC-41	USSF-12 (WFOV & USSF-12 Ring)	Un­known	GEO	United States Space Force	Success[43]
	Rideshare mission consisting of 2 spacecraft. The forward payload was the Wide-field of View (WFOV) testbed that informs the Next Gen Overhead Persistent Infrared program (NG-OPIR) which will replace the Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS). The aft payload was a propulsive ESPA named the USSF-12 Ring, which is a mission for the Department of Defense. 100th flight of an RD-180 engine.
AV-097	4 August 2022, 10:29	Atlas V 421	Cape Canaveral, SLC-41	USA-336 (SBIRS GEO-6)	~4,500[44]	GTO	United States Space Force	Success[45]
	Sixth and final Space-Based Infrared System Geostationary satellite. Final flight of an Atlas V with 4-meter fairing from Cape Canaveral.
AV-099	4 October 2022, 21:36	Atlas V 531	Cape Canaveral, SLC-41	SES-20 & SES-21	~3,300	GEO	SES	Success[46]
	Boeing built communication satellites. Satellites launched on a dual stack configuration. SES-20 will be located as an in-orbit spare at 103° West, while SES-21 will be operated at 131° West.[47]
AV-098	10 November 2022, 09:49	Atlas V 401	Vandenberg, SLC-3E	JPSS-2 (NOAA-21) & LOFTID	4,154	SSO	NOAA	Success[48]
	Second JPSS weather satellite; joint NASA/ULA inflatable heat shield demonstrator (LOFTID).[49] Last launch of an Atlas V rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base. Final flight of an Atlas V with a 4-meter fairing. 100th use of Single Engine Centaur.

2023

Flight No.	Date / time (UTC)	Rocket, Configuration	Launch site	Payload	Payload mass (kg)	Orbit	Customer	Launch outcome
AV-102	10 September 2023, 12:47	Atlas V 551	Cape Canaveral, SLC-41	USA-346, USA-347 & USA-348 (NROL-107, Silentbarker)[50]	Un­known	GEO	NRO	Success[51]
	Unknown NRO payload. Final NRO launch on an Atlas V.
AV-104	6 October 2023, 18:06	Atlas V 501	Cape Canaveral, SLC-41	KuiperSat-1 & KuiperSat-2	Un­known	LEO	Amazon (Kuiper Systems)	Success[52]
	Project Kuiper Protoflight mission, carrying two demonstrator satellites. Final flight of Atlas V 501.

2024

Flight No.	Date / time (UTC)	Rocket, Configuration	Launch site	Payload	Payload mass (kg)	Orbit	Customer	Launch outcome
AV-085	5 June 2024, 14:52	Atlas V N22	Cape Canaveral, SLC-41	Boeing Crew Flight Test (Boeing Starliner S3.2 Calypso)	~13,000	LEO (ISS)	NASA	Success[53]
	Crewed flight test of the Starliner spacecraft to the ISS, with Sunita Williams and Barry E. Wilmore. First crewed launch of Atlas V. 100th Atlas V launch.
AV-101	30 July 2024, 10:45	Atlas V 551	Cape Canaveral, SLC-41	USSF-51	Un­known	GEO	United States Space Force	Success[54]
	First launch for United Launch Alliance under National Security Space Launch. Launch vehicle transferred from Vulcan Centaur to Atlas V. Final USSF launch on an Atlas V.

2025

Flight No.	Date / time (UTC)	Rocket, Configuration	Launch site	Payload	Payload mass (kg)	Orbit	Customer	Launch outcome
AV-107	28 April 2025, 23:01	Atlas V 551	Cape Canaveral, SLC-41	KuiperSat × 27 (KA‑01)[55]	15400	LEO	Amazon (Kuiper Systems)	Success
	Launch of 27 satellites for internet constellation. Heaviest payload ever launched by an Atlas V.[56]
AV-105	23 June 2025, 10:54	Atlas V 551	Cape Canaveral, SLC-41	KuiperSat × 27 (KA‑02)[57]	15400	LEO	Amazon (Kuiper Systems)	Success
	Launch of 27 satellites for internet constellation.

Future launches

In August 2021, ULA announced that Atlas V would be retired, and all 29 remaining launches had been sold.^[58] As of June 2025^[update], 13 launches remain, all of which are listed here: six Starliner missions, six launches for Project Kuiper, and one launch for ViaSat.

Date	Rocket, Configuration	Launch site	Payload	Orbit	Customer
Q3 2025	Atlas V 551	Cape Canaveral, SLC-41	KuiperSat × 27 (KA-03)	LEO	Amazon (Kuiper Systems)
	Launch of 27 satellites for internet constellation.
Q3 2025[59]	Atlas V 551	Cape Canaveral, SLC-41	ViaSat-3 F2	GTO	ViaSat
	First commercial contract directly signed with ULA.[60] Communications satellite.
2025–2026[55]	Atlas V 551	Cape Canaveral, SLC-41	KuiperSat × 27 (KA-04 to KA-08)	LEO	Amazon (Kuiper Systems)
	Satellite internet constellation. Remaining 5 of the 9 Atlas V Kuiper launches.
2025—2030	Atlas V N22	Cape Canaveral, SLC-41	Boeing Starliner-1	LEO (ISS)	Boeing
	Atlas V N22	Cape Canaveral, SLC-41	Boeing Starliner-2	LEO (ISS)	Boeing
	Atlas V N22	Cape Canaveral, SLC-41	Boeing Starliner-3	LEO (ISS)	Boeing
	Atlas V N22	Cape Canaveral, SLC-41	Boeing Starliner-4	LEO (ISS)	Boeing
	Atlas V N22	Cape Canaveral, SLC-41	Boeing Starliner-5	LEO (ISS)	Boeing
	Atlas V N22	Cape Canaveral, SLC-41	Boeing Starliner-6	LEO (ISS)	Boeing
	NASA has placed firm orders for three Starliner flights once the capsule is certified for operational use, Starliner-1 through Starliner-3. Under the terms of its contract with Boeing, NASA has the option to purchase up to three additional operational flights, Starliner-4 through Starliner-6, however it is unclear if it will be possible to operate that many missions before the scheduled retirement of the ISS in 2030.[61]

See also

• Spaceflight portal

• List of Thor and Delta launches (2020–2024)
• List of Vulcan launches

Notes

1. 11,033 km × 11,068 km (6,856 mi × 6,877 mi; 5,957 nmi × 5,976 nmi) x 58.5°