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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.
Sounding rocket 2 Suborbital Retired (0/1) 2018 [36] Astra Rocket 3 Light rocket 2 LEO Retired (2/5) 2020 [37] [38] Astra Rocket 4 Light rocket 2 LEO Development 2023 (planned) [39] [40] SALVO Light rocket 2 LEO Cancelled — [41] [42] [43] Bellatrix Aerospace: Chetak Light rocket 2 LEO Development 2023 (planned) Blue Origin: New Shepard ...
A super heavy-lift launch vehicle is a rocket that can lift to low Earth orbit a "super heavy payload", which is defined as more than 50 metric tons (110,000 lb) [1] [2] by the United States and as more than 100 metric tons (220,000 lb) by Russia. [3]
Finals flight targets: 810 ft in 40-43 s and 860 ft in 42-45 s. 47.58 Newport High School - Team 2, Bellevue WA 13 2022-23 May 20, 2023 798 1 850 ft (259 m) 42-45 s Rocket recovers as two pieces (egg and altimeter in one, motor in the other), both under parachute. Finals flight targets: 825 ft in 41-44 s and 875 ft in 43-46 s. 35
A Soyuz-FG rocket launches from "Gagarin's Start" (Site 1/5), Baikonur Cosmodrome. A rocket (from Italian: rocchetto, lit. ''bobbin/spool'', and so named for its shape) [nb 1] [1] is a vehicle that uses jet propulsion to accelerate without using any surrounding air. A rocket engine produces thrust by reaction to exhaust expelled at high speed. [2]
Compared with airbreathing engines, rockets are lightweight and powerful and capable of generating large accelerations. To control their flight, rockets rely on momentum, airfoils, auxiliary reaction engines, gimballed thrust, momentum wheels, deflection of the exhaust stream, propellant flow, spin, or gravity.
The Stratolaunch made its second flight on April 29, 2021. [30] Its third flight took place on January 16, 2022, from Mojave Air and Space Port; the flight lasted 4 hours 23 minutes and reached altitude of over 23,490 feet (7,160 m) and top speed of 330 km/h (180 kn). [31] It made its fourth flight on February 24, 2022.
The first X-15 flight was an unpowered glide flight by Scott Crossfield, on 8 June 1959. Crossfield also piloted the first powered flight on 17 September 1959, and his first flight with the XLR-99 rocket engine on 15 November 1960. Twelve test pilots flew the X-15.