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Falcon 9 Block 5, the most prolific active orbital launch system in the world. This comparison of orbital launch systems lists the attributes of all current and future individual rocket configurations designed to reach orbit.
Soyuz-U: None No Retired (43) Progress-M (11F615A55) ... Falcon 9: 8.1: 6,400: 3,307 [5] 9.3 / 37: 2,507 [5] 4.0: Yes Operational Enhanced Cygnus
A Saturn V rocket, one of the most powerful operational launch vehicles to date. This article compares different orbital launcher families (launchers which are significantly different from other members of the same 'family' have separate entries).
Soyuz 7K-T Soviet Union: OKB-1 ... Ariane 6 or Falcon 9 4: 8,000 Solar panels 4,000 LEO, 2,000 Lunar TBA Planned: 0: Suborbital space vehicles. Spacecraft
Engine Origin Designer Vehicle Status Use Propellant Power cycle Specific impulse (s) [a] Thrust (N) [a] Chamber pressure (bar) Mass (kg) Thrust: weight ratio [b] Oxidiser: fuel ratio
The FAA grounded the Falcon 9 rocket last week in order to investigate why a rocket booster from an uncrewed SpaceX mission tipped over and exploded early Wednesday upon returning to Earth.
Falcon 9 underwent iterative upgrades and completed the first propulsive landing of an orbital rocket stage in 2015. [5] SpaceX then began regularly reusing first stages. [6] In 2022, Falcon 9 broke the record of 47 launches in one year held by Soyuz-U. [7] Falcon 9 launched 91 times in 2023 and 132 times in 2024. [8]
Soyuz (Russian: Союз, lit. 'union', GRAU index: 11A511) is a family of Soviet and later Russian expendable medium-lift launch vehicles initially developed by the OKB-1 design bureau and manufactured by the Progress Rocket Space Centre factory in Samara, Russia.