Launch providers and vehicles
Atlas Centaur
The vehicle whose second flight, on 27 November 1963, was the first successful Centaur flight and the first in flight burn of a liquid hydrogen engine, the RL10 later built in West Palm Beach, from Launch Complex 36 [NTRSRL10][NASACENT][NSFLC36]. NASA Glenn describes the line as continuing in Atlas V [NASAROAD].
- Entity type
- launch vehicle
- Kind
- vehicle
- Lane
- Launch providers and vehicles
- Place
- Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
- Hub region
- Space Coast
- Founding year
- 1963
- Florida space year and timeline placement
- 1963 · 1963: Atlas Centaur flies from Launch Complex 36 (1963)
- Role
- launch vehicle with the RL10 powered Centaur stage
- Cutoff status
- Retired; line continues as Atlas V
- Status as of the cutoff
- Retired as Atlas Centaur. The Centaur line continues on Atlas V.
- Entity status
- historic or successor
- Project status
- not applicable
- Evidence class
- historic or successor
- Confidence
- High · an official source that documents the node’s specific Florida claim
- Degree
- 3
- Betweenness
- 0.0364 on the full graph · 0.0014 on the industrial relations subgraph
- Sources
- [NTRSRL10] [NASACENT] [NASAROAD] [NSFLC36]
Connections
Ownership and corporate lineage
- predecessor of →Atlas VNASA Glenn traces the Atlas Centaur line to Atlas V [NASAROAD]2002
Industrial production and service
- flies from →Launch Complex 36the first successful Atlas Centaur flies from LC-36A on 27 November 1963 [NSFLC36] [NTRSRL10]1963
- powers ←RL10 enginethe RL10 makes the first in flight liquid hydrogen burn on the Centaur stage [NTRSRL10] [NASACENT]1963