Launched NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter from Cape Canaveral. The Atlas V 401's Centaur upper stage completed a 56-minute burn sequence to send the spacecraft on its interplanetary trajectory; MRO arrived at Mars in March 2006 to study the planet's climate, geology and potential water sites.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Mars
- Payload to orbit
- 2.2 T
- Flight
- 3rd
- of 41 Atlas V 401 flights
- Date and time
- 12 August 2005, 11:43 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas V 401
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Planetary Science
- International designator
- 2005-029
- Launches in 2005
- 32nd of 56
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