Atlas V 401 launched NASA's MAVEN spacecraft from Cape Canaveral toward Mars to study how the planet's upper atmosphere and volatiles have escaped to space over time.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Helio-N/A
- Heliocentric orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.5 T
- Flight
- 19th
- of 41 Atlas V 401 flights
- Date and time
- 18 November 2013, 18:28 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas V 401
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Planetary Science
- International designator
- 2013-063
- Launches in 2013
- 65th of 81
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