The Launch Vehicle

SOHO will be launched by an Atlas IIAS built by General Dynamics Commerical Launch Services, from Space Launch Complex 36B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Launch is currently scheduled for 1995 September 11.


Click here for a JPEG image of an earlier, successful launch of an Atlas IIAS.


SOHO/ATLAS IIAS KEY PARAMETERS

DIMENSIONS

  launch vehicle height ................. 55.00 m
  payload adapter ........................ 1.19 m
  payload fairing section ................ 4.27 m

PROPULSION

  first stage ......... Atlas booster engines (2)
  strap-ons .. Castor IVA solid rocket motors (4)
  second stage .......................... Centaur

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