Atlas DD

Manufacturer: Convair · Maiden flight: 14 April 1959 · Wikipedia (opens in new tab)

Launches9

Successes6

Failures3

Success rate66.7%

The SM-65D Atlas, or Atlas D, was the first operational version of the U.S. Atlas missile. Atlas D was first used as an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) to deliver a nuclear weapon payload on a suborbital trajectory. It was later developed as a launch vehicle to carry a payload to low Earth orbit on its own, and later to geosynchronous orbit, to the Moon, Venus, or Mars with the Agena or Centaur upper stage.