For Thursday’s launch, Atlas flew in its 551 configuration, the most powerful version of this workhorse rocket, with this specific vehicle having tail number AV-086. Although earlier AEHF ...

United Launch Alliance’s workhorse Atlas V rocket launched an advanced communications satellite for the US Air Force Wednesday, following an early-morning liftoff from Florida’s Cape Canaveral ...

why sunset the Atlas V? The most obvious reason is cost, as the expendable booster simply can’t compete with the new generation of vehicles from commercial launch providers like SpaceX.

ULA crews at Cape Canaveral have already stacked the next Vulcan rocket on its mobile launch platform in anticipation of ...

John Glenn became the first American to orbit Earth. An Atlas launch vehicle propelled a Mercury spacecraft into Earth orbit and enabled Glenn to circle Earth three times.

Questions arose about matters such as the abort system, vehicle accelerations and avionics, among many other matters. While ULA has flown Atlas V with 100 percent success since the debut launch in ...