10 AMAZING ATLAS V space rocket launches! HD
0An amazing compiled video of impressive launches of the Atlas V rocket...
The Atlas V is an expendable launch system in the Atlas rocket family.
It's operated by United Launch Alliance (ULA), a joint venture with Boeing.
Each Atlas V rocket uses a Russian-built RD-180 engine burning kerosene and liquid oxygen to power its first stage and an American-built RL10 engine burning liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen to power its Centaur upper stage.
The RD-180 engines are provided by RD Amross - a Russian Engine Design Bureau, while Aerojet Rocketdyne provides both the RL10 engines and the strap-on boosters used in some configurations. The standard payload fairing sizes are 4 or 5 meters in diameter and of various lengths. Fairings sizes as large as 7.2 m in diameter and up to 32.3 m in length have been considered.[5] The rocket is manufactured in Rocket Factories located in the Steel Mill area of Decatur, Alabama and Harlingen, Texas.
NASA and Boeing plans to use the Atlas V to launch the CST-100 Starliner in 2019 — meaning that this amazing and reliable launch vehicle is human rated.
Following is the list of satellite launches and payloads launched in the video:
1: CST-100 animation, launch in 2019
2: Cygnus OA-6 to the ISS
3: TDRS-M by NASA
4: NASA Mars InSight
5: NOAA launch at VAFB
6: SBIRS GEO launch 4
7: New Horizons probe to Pluto
8: AFSPC-11 for USAF [features plane footage included]
9: Geostationary Satellite (GOES-S)
10: Cygnus CRS-flight 4
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