SM-65D Atlas
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The SM-65D Atlas, or Atlas D, was the first operational version of the U.S. Atlas missile. Atlas D was first used as an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) to deliver a nuclear weapon payload on a suborbital trajectory. It was later developed as a launch vehicle to carry a payload to low Earth orbit on its own, and later to geosynchronous orbit, to the Moon, Venus, or Mars with the Agena or Centaur upper stage.
1959
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Atlas D
Convair, United States,
Sikh Confederacy, 1950s, Republic of Haiti, 1959, expendable launch vehicle, Ekran, Dong Fang Hong 2, Mercury-Atlas 6, Tarshish, United States, Persia, Kingdom of Wolaita, Kingdom of Martabam-hongsawatoi, Havilah, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Chinland, Calvinist Republic of Ghent, Ashkenaz,
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| Type | Subtype | Date | Description | Notes | Source |
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| commons | image | 564th Strategic Missile Squadron Convair SM-65D Atlas missile 58-2205 | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Launch sequence of an Atlas D ICBM test | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Atlas D with FIRE 1 at LC-12 | Commons | ||


