Atlas II was a member of the Atlas family of launch vehicles which evolved from the successful Atlas missile program of the 1950s. Atlas II was the last Atlas to use a three engine stage-and-a-half design: two of its three engines were jettisoned during ascent but its fuel tanks and other structural elements were retained. It was designed to launch payloads into low earth orbit geosynchronous transfer orbit or geosynchronous orbit.
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