Atlas II
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Atlas II was an American expendable launch vehicle family developed by General Dynamics and later Lockheed Martin, used primarily in the 1990s to launch commercial and military satellites into orbit.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Atlas II canonical | 14 |
| Atlas IIAS | 12 |
| Atlas IIA | 3 |
| Atlas II family | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2431720 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
Target entity: Atlas II Context triple: [Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 36, primaryLaunchVehicle, Atlas II]
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Titan IIIE
Titan IIIE was a U.S. expendable launch vehicle variant of the Titan III family, equipped with a Centaur upper stage and used in the 1970s to send deep-space probes such as Voyager 1 on interplanetary trajectories.
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Titan II GLV
Titan II GLV was a modified two-stage Titan II intercontinental ballistic missile used by NASA as the launch vehicle for all crewed Gemini spacecraft during the mid-1960s.
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Titan III
Titan III was a family of American expendable launch vehicles developed during the Cold War era to support heavy military and civilian payloads into Earth orbit and beyond.
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Centauro II
The Centauro II is a modern Italian 8x8 wheeled tank destroyer/armored fighting vehicle featuring enhanced firepower, protection, and mobility compared to its predecessor.
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E.
Pegasus XL
Pegasus XL is an air-launched, three-stage solid-fuel orbital rocket developed by Orbital Sciences Corporation for placing small satellites into low Earth orbit.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Atlas II Target entity description: Atlas II was an American expendable launch vehicle family developed by General Dynamics and later Lockheed Martin, used primarily in the 1990s to launch commercial and military satellites into orbit.
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A.
Titan IIIE
Titan IIIE was a U.S. expendable launch vehicle variant of the Titan III family, equipped with a Centaur upper stage and used in the 1970s to send deep-space probes such as Voyager 1 on interplanetary trajectories.
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B.
Titan II GLV
Titan II GLV was a modified two-stage Titan II intercontinental ballistic missile used by NASA as the launch vehicle for all crewed Gemini spacecraft during the mid-1960s.
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C.
Titan III
Titan III was a family of American expendable launch vehicles developed during the Cold War era to support heavy military and civilian payloads into Earth orbit and beyond.
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D.
Centauro II
The Centauro II is a modern Italian 8x8 wheeled tank destroyer/armored fighting vehicle featuring enhanced firepower, protection, and mobility compared to its predecessor.
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E.
Pegasus XL
Pegasus XL is an air-launched, three-stage solid-fuel orbital rocket developed by Orbital Sciences Corporation for placing small satellites into low Earth orbit.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American launch vehicle
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expendable launch vehicle family ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| developedBy |
General Dynamics
ⓘ
Lockheed Martin ⓘ |
| familyVariant |
Atlas II
self-link
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Atlas II self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Atlas IIA
Atlas II self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Atlas IIAS
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| launchCapability |
geosynchronous transfer orbit
ⓘ
low Earth orbit ⓘ |
| launchSitesUsed |
Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
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surface form:
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station
Vandenberg Space Force Base ⓘ
surface form:
Vandenberg Air Force Base
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| manufacturer |
General Dynamics
ⓘ
Lockheed Martin ⓘ |
| operationalPeriod | 1990s ⓘ |
| operator |
United States Air Force
ⓘ
commercial launch providers ⓘ |
| predecessor |
Atlas
ⓘ
surface form:
Atlas I
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| propellantType | liquid propellant ⓘ |
| propulsionType | liquid-fueled rocket engines ⓘ |
| rocketFamily |
Atlas rocket
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surface form:
Atlas rocket family
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| stageConfiguration | two-stage launch vehicle ⓘ |
| status | retired ⓘ |
| successor |
Atlas III
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Atlas V ⓘ |
| usedFor |
commercial satellite launches
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launching satellites into orbit ⓘ military satellite launches ⓘ |
| usedInProgram |
U.S. military space programs
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commercial communications satellite programs ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Subject: Atlas II Description of subject: Atlas II was an American expendable launch vehicle family developed by General Dynamics and later Lockheed Martin, used primarily in the 1990s to launch commercial and military satellites into orbit.
Referenced by (30)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.