NEXT SPACEFLIGHT

Status

Success

Perseverance

Launch Time
Thu Jul 30, 2020 11:50 UTC

Rocket

Atlas V 541
Image Credit: ULA
ULA
Status: Retired
Price: $145.0 million
Liftoff Thrust: 10,478 kN
Payload to LEO: 17,410 kg
Payload to GTO: 8,290 kg
Stages: 2
Strap-ons: 4
Rocket Height: 62.2 m
Fairing Diameter: 5.4 m
Fairing Height: 26.5 m

Mission Details

Perseverance

Perseverance is a Mars rover mission by NASA's Mars Exploration Program. It will investigate an astrobiologically relevant ancient environment on Mars, investigate its surface geological processes and history, including the assessment of its past habitability, the possibility of past life on Mars, and the potential for preservation of biosignatures within accessible geological materials.

Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 3,839.0 kg
Heliocentric Orbit

Location

SLC-41, Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, USA

Stats

2020

58th orbital launch attempt

United Launch Alliance

140th mission
4th mission of 2020
139th successful mission
135th consecutive successful mission

Atlas V

85th mission
4th mission of 2020
84th successful mission
75th consecutive successful mission