List of Atlas launches (2020–2029)

The Solar Orbiter (SolO)^[1] is a Sun-observing probe developed by the European Space Agency (ESA) with a National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) contribution. Solar Orbiter, designed to obtain detailed measurements of the inner heliosphere and the nascent solar wind, will also perform close observations of the polar regions of the Sun which is difficult to do from Earth. These observations are important in investigating how the Sun creates and controls its heliosphere.

Mars 2020 is a NASA mission that includes the rover Perseverance, the now-retired small robotic helicopter Ingenuity, and associated delivery systems, as part of the Mars Exploration Program. Mars 2020 was launched on an Atlas V rocket at 11:50:01 UTC on July 30, 2020,^[2] and landed in the Martian crater Jezero on February 18, 2021, with confirmation received at 20:55 UTC.^[3] On March 5, 2021, NASA named the landing site Octavia E. Butler Landing.^[4] As of 3 July 2024, Perseverance has been on Mars for 1198 sols (1231 total days; 3 years, 136 days).^{[5][6][7][8][9]} Ingenuity operated on Mars for 1042 sols (1071 total days; 2 years, 341 days) before sustaining serious damage to its rotor blades, possibly all four, causing NASA to retire the craft on January 25, 2024.^[10][11]

Landsat 9 is an Earth observation satellite launched on 27 September 2021 from Space Launch Complex-3E at Vandenberg Space Force Base on an Atlas V 401 launch vehicle.^[12] NASA is in charge of building, launching, and testing the satellite, while the United States Geological Survey (USGS) operates the satellite, and manages and distributes the data archive.^[13] It is the ninth satellite in the Landsat program, but Landsat 6 failed to reach orbit. The Critical Design Review (CDR) was completed by NASA in April 2018, and Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems (NGIS) was given the go-ahead to manufacture the satellite.^[14]

Lucy is a NASA space probe on a twelve-year journey to eight different asteroids. It is slated to visit two main belt asteroids as well as six Jupiter trojans – asteroids that share Jupiter's orbit around the Sun, orbiting either ahead of or behind the planet.^[15][16] All target encounters will be flyby encounters.^[17] The Lucy spacecraft is the centerpiece of a US$981 million mission.^[18] It was launched on 16 October 2021.

Boeing Crew Flight Test (Boe-CFT) is the first crewed mission of the Boeing Starliner capsule. Launched on 5 June 2024, the mission flew a crew of two NASA astronauts, Barry E. Wilmore and Sunita Williams, from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station to the International Space Station. The planned eight day mission with a ground landing in the American Southwest on 14 June has been extended indefinitely due to malfunctioning thrusters and helium leaks. NASA has not approved Starliner to fly back to Earth until the issues are solved or better understood.