List of orbital launch systems

This is a list of conventional orbital launch systems. This is composed of launch vehicles, and other conventional systems, used to place satellites into orbit.

Argentina

  • ORBIT II – Retired[1]
  • TRONADOR – Under Development[2]

Australia

  • AUSROCK IV – Retired
  • Eris (Gilmour Space Technologies) – Under Development

Brazil

  • VLS-1 – Retired
  • VLM – Under Development

Canada

  • Aurora – Under development

China

Several rockets of the Long March family
Long March 2F
Long March 5
Zhuque-2

European Union

Ariane 5
  • Ariane
  • Europa – Retired
    • Europa I – Retired
    • Europa II – Retired
  • Vega
    • Vega – Operational
    • Vega-C – Operational
    • Vega-E – Under Development

France

Germany

India

ISRO's launch vehicles. Left to right: SLV, ASLV, PSLV, GSLV, LVM3
RLV
Human Rated Launch Vehicle (HRLV)
Vikram series, the under development orbital class launch family of Skyroot Aerospace in comparison with already flown Vikram S, the sounding rocket
ISRO/DoS systems
Private agencies
  • Vikram (rocket family) (Skyroot Aerospace):
    • Vikram I – Under Development
    • Vikram II – Proposed
    • Vikram III – Proposed
Agnibaan

Iran

Simorgh SLV
  • Safir – Retired
  • Simorgh
  • Qased
  • Qaem 100
  • Qaem 105 – Under Development
  • Zuljanah – Under Development

Iraq

  • Al Abid – Abandoned in R&D phase[10]

Israel

Italy

  • SISPRE C-41 – Retired
  • Italian LTV SCOUT (jointly with United States of America) – Retired
  • AERITALIA/SNIA/BPD ALFA – Retired
  • ALENIA/SNIA-BPD SAN MARCO SCOUT (jointly with NASA) – Cancelled
  • Vega (jointly with European Space Agency)
    • Vega – Retired
    • Vega-C – Operational
  • T4i Odyssey – Under Development

Italian Rockets

Japan

Mu rockets
H-II series
Εpsilon

Malaysia

New Zealand

  • Electron (Rocket Lab, developed in New Zealand[16] and the United States)
  • Neutron – Under Development

North Korea

Taiwan

Philippines

Romania

  • Haas – Under Development

Singapore

Soviet Union and successor states (Russia and Ukraine)

Russia/USSR
Proton-K
Soyuz-FG
Dnepr-1
Angara Family
Ukraine

South Africa

South Korea

  • HANBIT family (INNOSPACE) – Under Development[30]
    • HANBIT-Nano
    • HANBIT-Micro
    • HANBIT-Mini
  • Blue Whale 1 (Perigee Aerospace) – Under Development
  • Naro family
  • Solid fueled LV family
    • Solid fueled TV2
    • Solid fueled LV – Under Development

Spain

  • INTA Family
    • INTA Capricornio – Cancelled
    • INTA Programa PILUM – Under Development
  • PLD Space Family
  • Pangea Aerospace Family
    • Pangea Aerospace Meso – Under development
  • Zero 2 Infinity Family
  • Celestia Aerospace Family
    • Celestia Aerospace Sagittarius – Under development

Turkey

  • UFS – Under Development since 2007[34]

United Kingdom

United States

Active

Atlas rockets
Delta rockets
Falcon rockets and Starship

Inactive

Comparison of Saturn V, Space Shuttle, three Ares rockets, and SLS Block 1
Titan rockets

See also

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