Launch vehicles
Falcon 9
SpaceX
Two-stage orbital launcher designed so the first stage flies back and lands for reuse. It carries most of what reaches low Earth orbit on any given week.
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Launch vehicles
Starship
SpaceX
Super-heavy-lift system designed to be fully reusable — booster and ship both. Launches from Starbase in South Texas.
Launch vehicles
Electron
Rocket Lab
Small orbital launcher built for dedicated smallsat rides rather than shared ones. Flies from Mahia in New Zealand and from Wallops in Virginia.
Launch vehicles
New Glenn
Blue Origin
Heavy-lift vehicle with a first stage designed to land and fly again, operating out of Cape Canaveral.
Launch vehicles
Ariane 6
ArianeGroup · ESA
Europe's heavy launcher, flying from the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou. Configurations vary by the number of solid boosters.
Crewed
Dragon
SpaceX
Capsule flown in crew and cargo variants, launched on Falcon 9 and berthed or docked at the International Space Station.
Crewed
Soyuz · Progress
Roscosmos
The long-running Russian pairing — Soyuz for crew, Progress for uncrewed resupply — still rotating people and cargo through the station.
Beyond Earth
Orion
NASA · ESA
Crew capsule built for missions beyond low Earth orbit under the Artemis programme, with a European-built service module.
