Atlas V 541 | Mars 2020 (Perseverance rover & Ingenuity helicopter)
United Launch AllianceSpace Launch Complex 41 — Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).
mission
- Name
- Mars 2020 (Perseverance rover & Ingenuity helicopter)
- Type
- Robotic Exploration
- Target orbit
- Heliocentric N/A (Helio-N/A)
- Weather probability
- 90% go
Atop this ULA Atlas V rocket will be Perseverance, a car-sized rover which will explore an ancient river delta on Mars. Armed with a suite of six scientific instruments, Perseverance will primarily hunt for clues to the planet's distant past, and hopefully uncover signs of ancient life and habitability. The rover also carries an experiment that'll convert carbon dioxide into oxygen, a box-sized helicopter named Ingenuity that'll demonstrate powered flight on Mars, and a system that enables the rover to leave behind samples for later retrieval and return to Earth during NASA and ESA's ambitious sample return mission later this decade.
schedule
- NET (no earlier than)
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- Window closes
- Last updated
vehicle & provider
- Rocket
- Atlas V 541
- Family
- Atlas
- Variant
- 541
- Provider
- United Launch Alliance
- Type
- Commercial
- Country
- USA
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launch site
- Pad
- Space Launch Complex 41
- Location
- Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Country
- USA
- Timezone
- America/New_York
- Coordinates
- 28.5834, -80.5830
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