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  2. Comparison of orbital launch systems - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Comparison of orbital launcher families - Wikipedia

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    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).

  4. SpaceX launch vehicles - Wikipedia

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    Falcon Heavy (FH) is a super heavy lift space launch vehicle designed and manufactured by SpaceX. The Falcon Heavy is a variant of the Falcon 9 launch vehicle comprising three Falcon 9 first stages: a reinforced center core, and two additional side boosters. All three boosters are capable of being recovered and reused, although most flights use ...

  5. SpaceX Falcon Heavy launches X-37B plane, one of the US ... - AOL

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    SpaceX’s hulking Falcon Heavy rocket returned to the ... The rocket lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 8:07 p.m. ET, carrying the military’s X-37B space plane ...

  6. Heavy-lift launch vehicle - Wikipedia

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    In 2021, Falcon 9 carried a record of 143 satellites into orbit on a single launch. [7] Falcon Heavy uses three first stage boosters similarly to Delta IV Heavy, but requires a strengthened center core. Falcon Heavy made its first flight in 2017 and was most capable operational launch vehicle until NASA's SLS launched in 2022. [8]

  7. Super heavy-lift launch vehicle - Wikipedia

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    The Shuttle-Derived Heavy Lift Launch Vehicle ("HLV") was an alternate super heavy-lift launch vehicle proposal for the NASA Constellation program, proposed in 2009. [69] A 1962 design proposal, Sea Dragon, called for an enormous 150 m (490 ft) tall, sea-launched rocket capable of lifting 550 t (1,210,000 lb) to low Earth orbit.

  8. SpaceX Super Heavy - Wikipedia

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    The goals for the test flight were for the Super Heavy booster to land on a 'virtual tower' in the ocean. [106] Super Heavy achieved a soft splashdown, [107] before being destroyed after tipping over. [108] [109] In April 2024, Musk stated one of the goals was to attempt a booster tower landing based on successful booster performance in flight 4.

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