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Rocket file · LV-245

Atlas F/Agena D

Convair · Atlas · RETIRED

Atlas F/Agena D is an expendable launch vehicle built by Convair. It first flew on 27 June 1978. It has flown 1 times with 1 successes, a success rate of 100.0%. It has nothing on the Launch Library 2 schedule right now.

Specification

Vehicle spec sheet

ON FILE
HeightNOT ON FILE
DiameterNOT ON FILE
Payload to LEONOT ON FILE
Payload to GTONOT ON FILE
Maiden flight27 June 1978
ReusableNo, expendable
Launch costNOT ON FILE
StatusRETIRED

As listed by Launch Library 2. The cost is Launch Library’s figure, not a quoted price. Figures for rockets outside the sixty most-flown were last read on 2026-11-05.

Flight record

Reliability

ON RECORD
Total flights1
Successful1
Failed0
Success rate100.0%
Landing attempts0
Landing successN/A
Scheduled0
VariantF/Agena D

About Atlas F/Agena D

One-off Atlas variant mating the last Agena stage flown to a refurbished Atlas F missile for the launch of Seasat.

Upcoming flights

Manifest

EMPTY

Atlas F/Agena D is retired, and no flight is filed.

All upcoming launches

From NASA's public image library and Wikimedia Commons. Each photo shows the credit its licence asks for and links back to where it came from.

KSC-67PC-0184
KSC-67PC-0184NASA · public domainWikimedia Commons ↗
Lockheed RM-81 Agena-B – NASM Udvar Hazy (51281028437)
Lockheed RM-81 Agena-B – NASM Udvar Hazy (51281028437)Alan Wilson from Peterborough, Cambs, UK · CC BY-SA 2.0Wikimedia Commons ↗

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Common questions

How many times has Atlas F/Agena D flown?
1 times, with 1 successes and 0 failures.
What is Atlas F/Agena D's success rate?
100.0%. That's 1 successful flights out of 1 attempts.
How much can Atlas F/Agena D lift to orbit?
Launch Library 2 doesn't list a payload figure for Atlas F/Agena D.
Is Atlas F/Agena D reusable?
No. Launch Library 2 lists Atlas F/Agena D as expendable, so no stage is recovered to fly again.