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Atlas V Configuration First Missions

For each configuration of the Atlas V launch vehicle flown by United Launch Alliance (and formerly by Lockheed Martin) name the first mission to utilize that configuration. The first number/letter (N/4/5) stands for the fairing diameter, the second number (0/1/2/3/4/5) stands for the number of Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs), and the third number (1/2) stands for the number of RL-10 engines on the Centaur III upper stage.
Dark blue boxes denote Lockheed Martin launches
Light blue boxes denote United Launch Alliance launches
The only NXX configuration or XX2 configuration is the N22 configuration and there are no 441 or 451 configurations
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Configuration
Date
Answer
401
August 21, 2002
Hot Bird 6
521
July 17, 2003
Rainbow-1
431
March 11, 2005
Inmarsat-4 F1
551
January 19, 2006
New Horizons
411
April 20, 2006
Astra 1KR
Configuration
Date
Answer
421
October 11, 2007
USA-195 (WGS-1)
501
April 22, 2010
USA-212 (X-37B OTV-1)
531
August 14, 2010
USA-214 (AEHF-1)
541
November 26, 2011
Mars Science Laboratory (MSL/Curiosity)
N22
December 20, 2019
Starliner OFT-1
511
January 21, 2022
USSF-8
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