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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)
Atlas Agena A Convair 02/26/1960 3 36.0 3.0 1000 1340
Atlas F Convair 08/08/1961 9
Space Launch System (SLS) National Aeronautics and Space Administration 11/16/2022 1 111.0 8.4 95000 39000
Falcon 9 SpaceX 09/29/2013 15 68.4 3.65 13150 4850 5883
Space Launch System (SLS) National Aeronautics and Space Administration 0 111.0 8.4 105000 39000
Delta IV M+(4,2) United Launch Alliance 11/20/2002 15 66.2 5.0 11920 6270 4200
Delta IV M+(5,2) United Launch Alliance 04/03/2012 3 72.0 5.0 11700 6565 5860
SPARK Sandia National Laboratories 11/04/2015 1
Minotaur IV Orbital Sciences Corporation 09/27/2011 1 23.9 2.35 1950 0 2200
Soyuz 2.1b Progress Rocket Space Center 07/26/2008 20 46.3 2.95 8200 3250
Soyuz STB Progress Rocket Space Center 10/21/2011 14 46.3 2.95 8200 3250
Soyuz U Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) 05/18/1973 714 51.1 2.95 6900
Start Moscow Institute of Thermal Technology 03/28/1995 1 28.9 1.61 645 887
Sputnik 8K74PS Energia 10/04/1957 2
Astra Rocket 3 Astra Space 09/12/2020 7 11.6 1.32 100 140
Shavit Israeli Space Agency 09/19/1988 2
Thorad SLV-2G Agena D McDonnell Douglas 08/09/1966 30 32.9 2.44 1444
Long March 3 China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation 10/23/2014 2 55.64 3.35 8000 3900 5923
Atlas F/PTS Convair 07/14/1974 1
Thorad SLV-2H Agena D McDonnell Douglas 06/05/1969 13 34.0 2.44 1571
Qaem 100 Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Force 03/04/2023 2 80
Rokot/Briz-K Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center 11/20/1990 1 29.0 2.5 1850 1870
Voskhod Soviet Space Program 11/16/1963 299
Long March 4B China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation 05/10/1999 48 44.1 3.35 4200 1500 2961
Thor Burner 2 McDonnell Douglas 09/16/1966 12 22.4 2.44 750