Atlas V 541 launched NASA's Mars Science Laboratory carrying the Curiosity rover on its journey to Mars. Curiosity landed in Gale Crater in August 2012 to study the planet's habitability, climate and geology.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Mars
- Payload to orbit
- 3.8 T
- Flight
- 1st
- of 9 Atlas V 541 flights
- Date and time
- 26 November 2011, 15:02 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas V 541
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Robotic Exploration
- International designator
- 2011-070
- Launches in 2011
- 73rd of 84
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