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Family: Atlas. Country: USA. Status: Hardware.
Last development version of Atlas. Never deployed operationally or used for space launches.
SpecificationsLaunches: 5. Failures: 3. Success Rate: 40.00% pct. First Launch Date: 23 December 1958. Last Launch Date: 24 August 1959. LEO Payload: 70 kg. to: 185 km Orbit. at: 32.0 degrees. Liftoff Thrust: 161,850 kgf. Total Mass: 110,740 kg. Core Diameter: 3.1 m. Total Length: 26.0 m. Flyaway Unit Cost $: 14.21 million. in 1985 unit dollars.
- Stage Number: 0. 1 x Atlas MA-2 Gross Mass: 3,050 kg. Empty Mass: 3,050 kg. Thrust (vac): 154,734 kgf. Isp: 282 sec. Burn time: 135 sec. Isp(sl): 248 sec. Diameter: 4.9 m. Span: 4.9 m. Length: 0.0 m. Propellants: Lox/Kerosene No Engines: 2. XLR-89-5
- Stage Number: 1. 1 x Atlas B Gross Mass: 107,610 kg. Empty Mass: 3,980 kg. Thrust (vac): 37,038 kgf. Isp: 309 sec. Burn time: 240 sec. Isp(sl): 215 sec. Diameter: 3.1 m. Span: 4.9 m. Length: 21.9 m. Propellants: Lox/Kerosene No Engines: 1. XLR-105-5
Atlas C Chronology
1958 Dec 23 - LV Configuration: Atlas 3C. Launch Site: Cape Canaveral . Launch Complex: LC12.
1959 Jan 27 - LV Configuration: Atlas 4C. Launch Site: Cape Canaveral . Launch Complex: LC12. FAILURE: Ground Guidance Failure.
1959 Feb 20 - LV Configuration: Atlas 5C. Launch Site: Cape Canaveral . Launch Complex: LC12. FAILURE: Propellant Feed Failure.
1959 Mar 18 - LV Configuration: Atlas 7C. Launch Site: Cape Canaveral . Launch Complex: LC12. FAILURE: Propulsion or Electrical Failure.
1959 Jul 21 - LV Configuration: Atlas 8C.
1959 Aug 24 - LV Configuration: Atlas 11C. Launch Site: Cape Canaveral . Launch Complex: LC12.
Bibliography:- 45 - Koelle, Heinz Hermann,, Handbook of Astronautical Engineering, McGraw-Hill,New York, 1961.
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