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Space launch market competition is the manifestation of market forces in the launch service provider business. In particular it is the trend of competitive dynamics among payload transport capabilities at diverse prices having a greater influence on launch purchasing than the traditional political considerations of country of manufacture or the national entity using, regulating or licensing ...
This comparison of orbital launch systems lists the attributes of all current and future individual rocket configurations designed to reach orbit. A first list contains rockets that are operational or have attempted an orbital flight attempt as of 2024; a second list includes all upcoming rockets. For the simple list of all conventional ...
Ariane 6. Ariane 6 is a European expendable launch system operated by Arianespace and developed and produced by ArianeGroup on behalf of the European Space Agency (ESA). It replaces the Ariane 5, as part of the Ariane launch vehicle family . This two-stage rocket utilizes liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen ( hydrolox) engines.
Starship is a two-stage super heavy-lift launch vehicle under development by SpaceX. As of June 2024, it is the most massive and most powerful vehicle ever to fly. [4] Starship is intended to lower launch costs significantly via economies of scale. [5] This is achieved by reusing both rocket stages, increasing payload mass to orbit, increasing ...
Rocket Lab Electron. Electron is a two-stage, partially reusable orbital launch vehicle developed by Rocket Lab, an American aerospace company with a wholly owned New Zealand subsidiary. [14] [15] Electron services the commercial small satellite launch market. [16] It's the third most launched small-lift launch vehicle in history.
165 + 335 seconds (2 burns) Propellant. LH 2 / LOX. [ edit on Wikidata] The Saturn V [a] is a retired American super heavy-lift launch vehicle developed by NASA under the Apollo program for human exploration of the Moon. The rocket was human-rated, had three stages, and was powered by liquid fuel.
The Qassam rocket ( Arabic: صاروخ القسام Ṣārūkh al-Qassām; also Kassam) is a simple, steel artillery rocket developed and deployed by the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military arm of Hamas. These rockets cannot be fired to target specific military objectives in or near civilian areas, and are "indiscriminate when used ...
Propellant. LH 2 / LOX. [ edit on Wikidata] New Shepard is a fully reusable sub-orbital launch vehicle developed for space tourism by Blue Origin. The vehicle is named after Alan Shepard, who became the first American to travel into space and the fifth person to walk on the Moon. The vehicle is capable of vertical takeoff and landings.