atlas_ii | countryorigin | united_states <tsp> atlas_ii | finalflight | 1998-03-16 <tsp> atlas_ii | launchsite | vandenberg_air_force_base <tsp> atlas_ii | diameter | 304 m <tsp> atlas_ii | launchsite | spaceport_florida_launch_complex_36 <sep> atlas ii was a member of the atlas family of launch vehicles, which evolved from the successful atlas missile program of the 1950s the atlas ii was a direct evolution of the atlas i, featuring longer first stage tanks, higher-performing engines, and the option for strap-on solid rocket boosters it was designed to launch payloads into low earth orbit, geosynchronous transfer orbit or geosynchronous orbit sixty-three launches of the atlas ii, iia and iias models were carried out between 1991 and 2004; all sixty-three launches were successes, making the atlas ii a highly reliable space launch system the atlas line was continued by the atlas iii, used between 2000 and 2005, and the atlas v which is still in use 
from the united states the atlas ii (3.04 m diameter)was sent from vandenberg air force base and spaceport florida launch complex 36. march 16. 1998 was its final lift off.m launch launched the atlas ii into space in 2004