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Atlas II Lockheed-Martin History:

The Lockheed Martin Atlas II is a affiliate of the Atlas ancestors of barrage vehicles, which stemmed from the acknowledged Atlas missile affairs of the 1950s. It was the aftermost Atlas to use a three-engine, two and a bisected date to apogee concept, acceptation two of its three engines were jettisoned during ascent, but its ammunition tanks and added structural elements were retained. It was advised to barrage payloads into low apple orbit, geosynchronous alteration apogee or geosynchronous orbit. The Atlas II family, which includes the Atlas II, IIA and IIAS, was developed in the mid-1980s to abode the growing appeal for ample bartering geosynchronous satellites. Sixty-three launches of all three models were agitated out amid 1988 and 2004.

The Atlas II had its beginning flight on December 7, 1991. It provided college achievement than the beforehand Atlas I by application engines with greater advance and best ammunition tanks for both stages. It activated an bigger Centaur rocket stage, the world's aboriginal high-energy propellant stage, to access its burden capability. The Atlas II was able with lower-cost electronics, an bigger flight computer and best propellant tanks than the Atlas I. The IIAS was the best able derivative.

The Atlas has been acclimated by NASA back 1958. It served as the barrage agent for Project SCORE, an chart amalgamation developed by the United States Army Signal Corps that became the world's aboriginal communications satellite. The accessory advertisement President Eisenhower's pre-recorded Christmas bulletin worldwide.