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Saturn V The first Saturn V, AS-501, before the launch of Apollo 4   Manned LEO Douglas Aircraft Company
The Saturn V (pronounced 'Saturn Five', popularly known as the Moon Rocket) was a multistage liquid-fuel expendable rocket used by NASA's Apollo and Skylab programs from 1967 until 1973. In total NASA launched thirteen Saturn V rockets with no loss...
Lunar Launch Vehicle North American Aviation
Launch vehicle Boeing
Low Earth orbit
Soyuz launch vehicle A Soyuz rocket, at Baikanur launch pad. Rocket   S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia
The Soyuz launch vehicle (Western designation: A-2) is an expendable launch system manufactured by TsSKB-Progress in Samara, Russia. It is used as the launcher for the manned Soyuz spacecraft as part of the Soyuz program. It is now also used to...
Dnepr launch vehicle Dnepr rocket lift-off 1 Rocket Launch vehicle Yuzhmash
The Dnepr rocket (; ) is a space launch vehicle named after the Dnieper River. It is a converted ICBM used for launching artificial satellites into orbit, operated by launch service provider ISC Kosmotras. The first launch, on April 21, 1999,...
Aquarius Launch Vehicle       Space Systems/Loral
Space Systems/Loral's Aquarius Launch Vehicle is a low-cost launch vehicle designed to carry small, inexpensive payoads into LEO. The vehicle will be primarily intended to launch into orbit bulk products, like water, fuel, and other consumables,...
Long March rocket Long March 2F launch vehicle     China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology
A Long March rocket is any rocket in a family of expendable launch system operated by the People's Republic of China. Development and design falls under the auspices of the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology. In English, the rockets are...
Long March 2 rocket family Long March 2F launch vehicle     China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology
Long March 2 rocket family is an expendable launch system operated by the People's Republic of China. Development and design falls mostly under the auspices of the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology. The rockets are, confusingly,...
Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle     Indian Space Research Organisation
The Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (usually known by its abbreviation, GSLV) is an expendable launch system operated by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). It was developed to enable India to launch its INSAT-type satellites into...
Advanced Satellite Launch Vehicle        
Augmented Satellite Launch Vehicle (ASLV) was the springboard to the advanced Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV). The ASLV was not a simple variant of the SLV-3 but a more complex vehicle. The ASLV is actually a 5-stage vehicle since the core...
Korea Space Launch Vehicle A 2005 model of KSLV-1 rocket to be launched at 2007/2008.      
The Korea Space Launch Vehicle (KSLV) will be the first space launcher of South Korea. It is being built under the authority of the Korea Aerospace Research Institute, the equivalent to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration of the United...
Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle PSLV-C8 with AGILE   Launch vehicle Indian Space Research Organisation
The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (usually known by its abbreviation, PSLV) is an expendable launch system operated by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). It was developed to allow India to launch its Indian Remote Sensing (IRS)...
Low Earth orbit
Satellite Launch Vehicle        
The India Satellite Launch Vehicle or SLV was a project started in the early 1970s by Indian Space Research Organisation to develop the technology needed to launch satellites. The project leader was Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam. SLV was intended to reach a...
Taurus rocket Taurus 3210 launching ROCSAT 2 on May 20, 2004 Rocket Launch vehicle Orbital Sciences Corporation
The Taurus rocket is a four stage, solid fuel launch vehicle built by Orbital Sciences Corporation. It is based on the air-launched Pegasus rocket from the same manufacturer. The Taurus rocket is able to carry a payload of around 1,350 kg into a low...
Saturn INT-21 A Saturn INT-21 launches the Skylab space station, on May 14, 1973 Rocket Space station North American Aviation
The Saturn INT-21 was an American orbital launch vehicle of the 1970s. It was derived from the Saturn V rocket, used for the Apollo program, and is commonly mistaken for the Saturn V. It was only launched once, from Kennedy Space Center at Cape...
Launch vehicle Boeing
Diamant Diamant P6230215   Launch vehicle  
The Diamant rocket (diamant is French for "diamond") was the first exclusively French expendable launch system and at the same time the first satellite launcher not built by either USA or USSR. As such it is the main predecessor of all subsequent...
Saturn-Shuttle Ksc-69pc-442   Launch vehicle Lockheed Martin
The Saturn-Shuttle was a proposed interface of the Space Shuttle orbiter and external tank with the S-IC stage on the Saturn V rocket. An interstage would be fitted on top of the S-IC stage to support the external tank, formerly occupied by the S-II...
Low Earth orbit Rockwell International
Boeing
Zenit rocket Zenit-2 rocket (Baikonur, 10 December 2001) Rocket Launch vehicle Yuzhnoye Design Bureau
The Zenit rocket (Ukrainian: Зеніт, Russian: Зени́т; meaning Zenith) is a space launch vehicle designed by the Yuzhnoye Design Bureau of Ukraine. Zenit was built in the 1980s for two purposes: as a liquid rocket booster for the Energia rocket and,...
Ares V Artist's impression of an Ares V during SRB separation     Alliant Techsystems
The Ares V (formerly known as the Cargo Launch Vehicle or CaLV) is the cargo launch component of Project Constellation. Ares V will launch the Earth Departure Stage and Altair lunar lander when NASA returns to the Moon, which is currently planned...
Jupiter-C A Jupiter-C sounding rocket on the launch pad   Sounding rocket Army Ballistic Missile Agency
The Jupiter-C was a type of sounding rocket used for three sub-orbital spaceflight conducted in 1956 and 1957. It was designed by the Army Ballistic Missile Agency (ABMA), and all three flights were launched from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station...
Atlas II Launch of an Atlas II rocket. (NASA)   Launch vehicle Lockheed Martin
Atlas II was a member of the Atlas family of launch vehicle, 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...
Minotaur Minotaur-1 rocket launching Mightysat-2.1 satellite     Orbital Sciences Corporation
The Minotaur I Rocket is an American solid fuel rocket designed to launch small satellite. It is built by Orbital Sciences Corporation and uses decommissioned Minuteman 2 solid rocket motors in its first and second stages, combined with Pegasus...
SpaceLoft XL     Sounding rocket UP Aerospace
The SpaceLoft XL is a sounding rocket developed by UP Aerospace. The rocket has a diameter of 10 inches (25 cm), and is 20 feet (6 m) long. It is capable of lofting a 110 lb (50 kg) payload to a sub-orbital trajectory with an apogee of 140 miles ...
Saturn IB The Saturn IB rocket for the AS-202 mission.   Launch vehicle Chrysler
The Saturn IB was an uprated version of the Saturn I, which featured a much more powerful second stage, the S-IVB. Unlike the earlier Saturn I, the IB had enough throw weight to launch the Apollo Command/Service Module or Lunar Module into Earth...
Low Earth orbit Douglas Aircraft Company
Starchaser 4     Sounding rocket Starchaser Industries
The Starchaser 4, also known as Nova is a British rocket built by Starchaser Industries. It has only been launched once due to fin damage on landing, on 22 November 2001, from Morecambe Bay in the United Kingdom. It reached an altitude of 1,688 m....
Atlas III An Atlas III launches from LC-36B   Launch vehicle Lockheed Martin
The Lockheed Martin Atlas III was an American orbit launch vehicle, used between 2000 and 2005. It was the first member of the Atlas family to feature a "normal" staging method, compared to the previous Atlas family members, which were equipped with...
Soyuz 2 rocket A Metop spacecraft ready for the launch atop a Soyuz-2.1a rocket.   Launch vehicle S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia
Soyuz 2 is the collective designation for the new generation versions of the Russia Soyuz rocket. In its basic form, it is a carrier rocket for placing payloads into low Earth orbit, however it is often flown with an upper stage, which allows it to...
Saturn II Ksc-69pc-442   Launch vehicle North American Aviation
The Saturn II was a proposed American ELV, derived from the Saturn V rocket that was used for the Apollo lunar program. The basic concept of the Saturn II was to save money by ceasing production of the Saturn IB rocket, and replacing it with a more...
Douglas Aircraft Company
DIRECT The DIRECT Launch Vehicle and its heritage     Alliant Techsystems
DIRECT is a proposal for a set of Shuttle Derived Launch Vehicle to be used for future spaceflight. Developed independently from NASA, DIRECT proposes an alternative system of launch vehicle for the U.S. government's Vision for Space Exploration,...
Boeing Integrated Defense Systems
Lockheed Martin
Rocketdyne
United Space Alliance
H-II The launch of H-II Flight 4, carrying ADEOS   Launch vehicle Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
The H-II (H2) rocket was a Japan satellite launch system, which flew seven times between 1994 and 1999, with five successes. It was developed by NASDA in order to give Japan a capability to launch larger satellite of the 1990s. It was the first...
Ares I Artist's impression of Ares I launch   Launch vehicle Thiokol
Ares I is the crew launch vehicle being developed by NASA as a component of Project Constellation. NASA will use Ares I to launch Orion, the spacecraft being designed for NASA human spaceflight missions after the Space Shuttle is retired in 2010....
Boeing
Alliant Techsystems
N1 rocket Two N1 Moon rockets appear on the pads at Baikonur Cosmodrome in early July 1969 Rocket Launch vehicle S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia
N1 or N-1 was the secret Soviet rocket intended to send Soviet cosmonaut to the Moon. It is also known in the west as the G-1e or SL-15. The Soviet classified technical name N1 was an abbreviation from the Russian word 'носитель' ('carrier')....
Europa rocket     Launch vehicle European Launcher Development Organisation
The Europa rocket was an early expendable launch system of the European Launcher Development Organisation (ELDO), which was the precursor to the European Space Agency and its Ariane family of launchers. The programme was initiated by the UK and the...
Black Arrow   Launch vehicle Saunders-Roe
Black Arrow was a British satellite carrier rocket. Black Arrow originated from studies by the Royal Aircraft Establishment for satellite launchers based on the Black Knight. The rocket used hydrogen peroxide oxidiser with RP-1 (paraffin oil) fuel. ...
Satellite Royal Aircraft Establishment
Martin Marietta Spacemaster     Launch vehicle Martin Marietta
The Martin Marietta Spacemaster was a proposed configuration for the Space Shuttle, which featured an X-24-derived orbiter, and an unusual “catamaran style” booster stage. During launch and ascent, the orbiter would be located in a recess in the...
GSLV III Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle III     Indian Space Research Organisation
The GSLV-III or Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle mark III is a launch vehicle currently under development by the Indian Space Research Organization. It is intended to launch heavy satellites into geostationary orbit, and will allow India to...
Vanguard rocket Launch of Vanguard rocket. (U.S. Navy)   Launch vehicle Martin Marietta
The Vanguard rocket was intended to be the first launch vehicle the United States would use to place a satellite into orbit. Instead, the Sputnik crisis caused by the surprise launch of Sputnik 1 led the U.S. to quickly orbit the Explorer 1...
Glenn L. Martin Company
Atlas V Rocket EELV United Launch Alliance
The Atlas V rocket is an expendable launch vehicle formerly built by Lockheed Martin and now built by the Lockheed Martin-Boeing joint venture United Launch Alliance. Aerojet develops and manufactures the Atlas V boosters. The rocket, built in...
Launch vehicle
Voskhod rocket Voskhod rocket Rocket Launch vehicle S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia
The Voskhod rocket (Russian: Восход, translated as "Sunrise") was a derivative of the Soviet R-7 ICBM designed for the human spaceflight programme but later used for launching Zenit reconnaissance satellite. It combined the R-7 with an upper stage...
Low Earth orbit
Saturn INT-20     Launch vehicle Douglas Aircraft Company
The Saturn INT-20 was a proposed intermediate payload follow-on from the Apollo Saturn V launch vehicle. An interstage would be fitted on top of the S-IC stage to support the S-IVB stage, so it could be considered either a souped-up Saturn IB with a...
Low Earth orbit Boeing
VLS-1     Launch vehicle  
The VLS-1 or Veículo Lançador de Satélites is the Brazilian Space Agency's main satellite launch vehicle project . The project's goal is to develop a launch vehicle capable of launching small general-purpose satellites into orbit. The project is...
Cosmos-3M       Yuzhnoye Design Bureau
The Cosmos-3M (11K65M) (Russian: Космос-3М) is a Russia space launch vehicle. It is a liquid-fueled two-stage rocket, first launched in 1967 and with over 410 successful launches to its name. The Cosmos 3M uses nitrogen tetroxide as an oxidizer to...
Falcon 1