The Atlas 2AS is equipped with four strap-on solid rocket motors and is capable to lifting payloads of 3,719 kg (8,200 lb) into a geostationary transfer orbit.
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 ATLAS STAGE Size: 3.05-m Dia x 24.90-m Length Propellant: 156,400-kg Liquid Oxygen & RP-1 Propulsion: Rocketdyne MA-5A booster and sustainer engines SOLID ROCKET BOOSTERS Four Thiokol Castor IVA motors Size: 102-cm Dia x 13.6-m Length Mass: 11,567 kg (each fueled) Ground-Lit Motors 11° Cant Nozzles Air-Lit Motors 7° Cant Nozzles CENTAUR UPPER STAGE Size: 3.05 m Dia x 10.06 m Length Inert Mass: 1,840 kg Propellant: 16,930 kg Liquid Hydrogen & Liquid Oxygen Propulsion: Two Pratt & Whitney restartable RL-10A-4 or RL10-4-1 engines |
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