Launched NASA's InSight Mars lander from Vandenberg, the first interplanetary mission launched from the U.S. West Coast, accompanied by the twin MarCO cubesats that became the first interplanetary CubeSats; InSight landed on Mars in November 2018.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Helio-N/A
- Heliocentric orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 910 kg
- Flight
- 38th
- of 41 Atlas V 401 flights
- Date and time
- 5 May 2018, 11:05 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas V 401
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 3E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Planetary Science
- International designator
- 2018-042
- Launches in 2018
- 42nd of 114
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