Atlas began 2018 with the successful deployment of the SBIRS GEO-4 missile detection satellite on 20 January, launched the advanced GOES-S (now GOES 17) weather satellite for NOAA in March ...

Atlas, U.S. missilery’s prime weapon ... 2) more training of missile crews, 3) more funds for Titan, 4) stepped-up production of the IRBM Thor. With the Rockefeller Report (TIME, Jan. 13 ...

The Atlas 5 will continue to launch civil and commercial payloads, and still has six remaining NSSL missions under contract from the U.S. Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center.