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Name Family Manufacturer Maiden Flight Date Active Reusable Launch Count Length (m) Max Diameter (m) LEO Capacity (kg) GTO Capacity (kg) Thrust at Liftoff (kN)
Ariane 5 ECA ArianeGroup 12/11/2002 73 57.7 5.4 10500 11400
Soyuz-U-PVB Progress Rocket Space Center 03/21/1984 74 51.0 3.0 6900
Long March 2D China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation 08/09/1992 85 38.3 3.35 3500 0 2962
Vostok 8A92M RKK Energiya 08/28/1964 93 30.84 2.99 3800 3996
Tsiklon-2 Yuzhnoye Design Bureau 08/06/1969 105 39.7 3.0 2820 2366
Proton Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center 10/12/1982 110
Tsiklon-3 Yuzhnoye Design Bureau 06/24/1977 122 39.27 3.0 4100 2713
Kosmos 11K63 Strategic Rocket Forces 05/24/1966 126 31.0 1.6 300
Space Shuttle National Aeronautics and Space Administration 04/12/1981 135 56.1 8.0 27500 28200
Molniya-M Russian Space Forces 10/04/1965 272
Falcon 9 SpaceX 05/11/2018 274 70.0 3.65 22800 8300 7607
Voskhod Soviet Space Program 11/16/1963 299
Kosmos-3M Russian Space Forces 05/15/1967 445
Soyuz U Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) 05/18/1973 714 51.1 2.95 6900