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The Saturn V is a retired American super heavy-lift launch vehicle developed by NASA under the Apollo program for human exploration of the Moon.

Following the war, he relocated to the United States, developing missiles for the US Army and later designing rockets for NASA's Apollo program.

is a retired Japanese expendable launch system that was developed and operated by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) in collaboration with JAXA

was a Japanese expendable launch system jointly developed by JAXA and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries

is a Japanese medium-lift launch vehicle developed by JAXA and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI)

Sergei Pavlovich Korolev (12 January 1907 [O.S. 30 December 1906], 14 January 1966) was a Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer who led the development of the Soviet space program during the early years of the Space Race.

Robert Hutchings Goddard (October 5, 1882, August 10, 1945) was an American physicist, inventor, and engineer credited with creating and building the world's first liquid-fueled rocket, which was successfully launched on March 16, 1926.

Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky (; Russian: Константи́н Эдуа́рдович Циолко́вский Russian pronunciation: [kənstɐnʲˈtʲin ɪdʊˈardəvʲɪtɕ tsɨɐlˈkofskʲɪj] ; 17 September [O.S. 5 September] 1857-19 September 1935) was a Russian rocket scientist who pioneered astronautics.

Hermann Julius Oberth (German: [ˈhɛrman ˈjuːli̯ʊs ˈoːbɛrt]; 25 June 1894-28 December 1989) was an Austro-Hungarian-born German physicist and rocket pioneer of Transylvanian Saxon descent.

Wan Hu is an alleged Chinese official said to be the first man to attempt to use a rocket to launch into outer space, first described in the early 20th century in American publications, with no known prior Chinese accounts.

Lagâri Hasan Çelebi was an Ottoman scientist, engineer and aviator who, according to the account written by traveller Evliya Çelebi, made a successful crewed rocket flight.

Robert Albert Charles Esnault-Pelterie (French pronunciation: [ʁɔbɛʁ albɛʁ ʃaʁl eno pɛltəʁi]; 8 November 1881-6 December 1957) was a French aircraft designer and spaceflight theorist.

Edward Seymour Forman (December 3, 1912, February 12, 1973) was an American engineer and inventor known for his pioneering work in early rocketry in the United States.

was a Japanese medium-lift launch vehicle

The N-I or N-1 was a derivative of the American Thor-Delta rocket produced under license in Japan.

The N-II or N-2 was a derivative of the American Delta rocket, produced under licence in Japan.

was an expendable Japanese automated cargo spacecraft

The HTV-X is manufactured by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries with contributions from Mitsubishi Electric.

Space Shuttle orbiter (initially under North American Rockwell)

is an American launch service provider formed in December 2006

was a Space Shuttle orbiter manufactured by Rockwell International and operated by NASA

was a Space Shuttle orbiter manufactured by Rockwell International and operated by NASA

Atlantis was manufactured by the Rockwell International company in Southern California

Endeavour was delivered by Rockwell International Space Transportation Systems Division in May 1991

On September 17, 1976, Enterprise was rolled out of Rockwell's plant at Palmdale, California.

The Boeing Small Launch Vehicle, or SLV, is an air-launched three-stage-to-orbit launch vehicle concept aimed to launch small payloads of 100 pounds (45 kg) into low Earth orbit.

The Boeing Human Landing System (HLS) was the name of a proposed lunar lander concept by Boeing that was submitted by Boeing to NASA on 5 November 2019 as part of the Artemis program and the NextSTEP H.

provider of space transportation, telecommunications, and artificial intelligence services

It was intended to provide large-capacity, all-purpose access to space

was an atmospheric entry robotic space probe

is the designation of a French sounding rocket

the first exclusively French expendable launch system

was a launch vehicle proposed by McDonnell Douglas in 1987

Skylab B was a proposed second US space station similar to Skylab that was planned to be launched by NASA for different purposes, mostly involving the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, but was canceled due to lack of funding.

The Payload Assist Module (PAM) is a modular upper stage designed and built by McDonnell Douglas (Boeing), using Thiokol Star-series solid propellant rocket motors.

is a retired American Space Shuttle orbiter

Contributing 21% of the company's revenues in 2016, it is the second largest space company in the world.

The European Service Module (ESM) is the service module component of the Orion spacecraft

was an expendable cargo spacecraft developed by the European Space Agency (ESA), used for space cargo transport in 2008

is a partially reusable crewed spacecraft used by NASA

Skylab was the United States' first space station launched by NASA, occupied for about 24 weeks between May 1973 and February 1974.

Thor was a US space launch vehicle

The Thor-Able was an American expendable launch system used for a series of re-entry vehicle tests and spacecraft launches between 1958 and 1960.

Thor-Agena was a series of orbital launch vehicles.

The Thor-Delta, also known as Delta DM-19 or just Delta, was an early American expendable launch system used for 12 orbital launches in the early 1960s.

reusable rocket first-stage

Audi Lunar Quattro (ALQ) is type of small lunar rover

The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice, formerly JUICE) is an interplanetary spacecraft developed by the European Space Agency (ESA).

The Solar Orbiter (SolO) is a Sun-observing probe developed by the European Space Agency (ESA) with a NASA contribution.

The mission comprises two orbiters: the Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO), built and operated by ESA, and Mio (Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter, MMO), built and operated by JAXA.

Mars Express is a space exploration mission by the European Space Agency (ESA) exploring the planet Mars and its moons since 2003, and the first planetary mission attempted by ESA.

Venus Express (VEX) was the first Venus exploration mission of the European Space Agency (ESA).

Rosetta was a space probe built by the European Space Agency that launched on 2 March 2004.

Gaia is a retired space observatory of the European Space Agency (ESA) that was launched in 2013 and operated until March 2025.

Envisat ("Environmental Satellite") is a large Earth-observing satellite which has been inactive since 2012.

LISA Pathfinder (LPF) was a space mission by the European Space Agency (ESA).

CryoSat is an ESA programme to monitor variations in the extent and thickness of polar ice through use of a satellite in low Earth orbit.

The aims of the mission are to improve understanding of the cloud, radiative and aerosol processes that affect the Earth's climate.

CHEOPS (Characterising Exoplanets Satellite) is a European space telescope.

Rosalind Franklin, previously known as the ExoMars rover, is a planned European robotic Mars rover, part of the international astrobiology programme ExoMars led by the European Space Agency (ESA).

Aeolus, or, in full, Atmospheric Dynamics Mission-Aeolus (ADM-Aeolus), was an Earth observation satellite operated by the European Space Agency (ESA).

Biomass is an Earth observing satellite of the European Space Agency (ESA) launched in 2025.

TerraSAR-X is an imaging radar Earth observation satellite, a joint venture being carried out under a public-private-partnership between the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and EADS Astrium.

Sentinel-2 is an Earth observation mission from the Copernicus Programme that acquires optical imagery at high spatial resolution (10 m to 60 m) over land and coastal waters.

is a German twin satellite mission using interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR)

is an Earth observation satellite developed by ESA

is a satellite constellation of very-high-resolution optical Earth-imaging satellites.

The Swarm constellation consists of three satellites (Alpha, Bravo and Charlie)

Twin satellites took detailed measurements of Earth's gravity field anomalies

Eurostar is a satellite bus made by Airbus Defence and Space

MetOp-SG (Meteorological Operational Satellite, Second Generation) is a series of six meteorological satellites

Alphabus is a family of heavy geostationary communications satellites

a 1980s British design for a single-stage-to-orbit (SSTO) reusable spaceplane

most commonly used for commercial and military communications satellites

Spainsat NG is a Spanish communications satellite program

Columbus is a science laboratory module that forms part of the International Space Station (ISS)

is a European constellation of GEO satellites that relay information and data between satellites, spacecraft, UAVs, and ground stations

It is located in a geostationary orbit

These satellites will measure sea level change from space

it was placed into supersynchronous transfer orbit on 22 December 2021

Pléiades Neo is a constellation of very-high-resolution (VHR) optical satellites.

Inmarsat-6 F2 was launched successfully in February 2023 on a Falcon-9 v1.2 (Block 5).

The Skynet 6A gap-filler military communications satellite built by Airbus Defence and Space

Giotto is a European robotic spacecraft mission from the European Space Agency.

It became one of the first geostationary communications satellites to carry six Ku-band transponders

SPOT-6 & -7 are twin commercial Earth observation satellites

is an external platform mounted on the COF (Columbus) module of the International Space Station

the latest generation of fully flexible, in orbit reconfigurable, Software Defined Satellites (SDS)

Olympus-1 was a communications satellite

Skylark was a family of British sounding rockets.

developed by NASDA in order to give Japan a capability to launch larger satellites

The Saturn I was a rocket designed as the United States' first medium lift launch vehicle

expendable medium-lift launch vehicle

In 2002 Mueller joined Musk as the founding employee of SpaceX.

the company is the principal contractor for Russia's human spaceflight program, producing crewed and cargo spacecraft, space station modules, and satellite platforms

responsible for space flights, cosmonautics programs, and aerospace research

is an expendable American uncrewed cargo spacecraft developed for International Space Station (ISS) resupply missions

is an American expendable medium-lift launch vehicle developed by Orbital Sciences Corporation

is a small-lift launch vehicle repurposed from the retired LGM-118 Peacekeeper, an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)

was an air-launched, small-lift launch vehicle developed by Orbital Sciences Corporation and later built and launched by Northrop Grumman

was a medium-lift to heavy-lift launch vehicle concept that spent several years in development by Northrop Grumman

is an American expendable launch system derived from the Minuteman II missile

formerly known as Taurus or Taurus XL, was a four stage solid fueled launch vehicle

Minotaur V is a small-lift launch vehicle repurposed from the retired LGM-118 Peacekeeper, an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)

is a spacecraft that extends the functional lifetime of another spacecraft through on-orbit satellite servicing

is a now canceled module that was planned to be part of the Lunar Gateway

was an American rocket concept derived from the LGM-118 Peacekeeper missile

in the context of the Soviet crewed Moon-flyby program in the Moon race.

building and operating the Soyuz family of rockets

VE 110 Agate is the designation of an unguided French test rocket developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

The VE 210 Rubis (French, meaning ruby) was a French two-stage rocket.

VE 121 Émeraude (French for "emerald") was a large French sounding rocket of the 1960s.

VE 231 Saphir (French, meaning sapphire) was a French two stage sounding rocket.

Aigle (French for eagle) was a French experimental rocket launched several times between 1960 and 1964 from CIEES Hammaguira.

Falcon 1 was a two-stage small-lift launch vehicle that was operated from 2006 to 2009 by SpaceX, an American aerospace manufacturer.

The Falcon 9 v1.0 was the first member of the Falcon 9 launch vehicle family, designed and manufactured by SpaceX in Hawthorne, California.

Falcon 9 v1.1 was the second version of SpaceX's Falcon 9 orbital launch vehicle.

Falcon 9 Full Thrust (also known as Falcon 9 v1.2) is a partially reusable, two-stage-to-orbit, medium-lift launch vehicle designed and manufactured in the United States by SpaceX.

Falcon 9 Block 5 is a partially reusable, human-rated, two-stage-to-orbit, medium-lift launch vehicle designed and manufactured in the United States by SpaceX.

SpaceX Dragon 1 is a class of fourteen partially reusable cargo spacecraft developed by SpaceX, an American private space transportation company.

Dragon 2 is a class of partially reusable spacecraft developed, manufactured, and operated by the American space company SpaceX for flights to the International Space Station (ISS) and private spaceflight missions.

Starship is a two-stage, fully reusable, super heavy-lift launch vehicle under development by American aerospace company SpaceX.

Starship (or colloquially the Ship) is a spacecraft and second stage under development by American aerospace company SpaceX.

Super Heavy is the reusable first stage of the SpaceX Starship super heavy-lift launch vehicle, which it composes in combination with the Starship second stage.

Starship HLS (Human Landing System) is a lunar lander variant of the Starship spacecraft

was a French state-owned aerospace company

Falcon X was a proposed spaceflight launch system

The large payload capacity of the launch vehicle placed it into the super-heavy lift class

reusable rockets that performed vertical takeoffs and landings

Dragon is a family of spacecraft

for using an uncrewed modified SpaceX Dragon 2 for low-cost Mars lander missions

ArianeGroup has developed its next-generation two-stage Ariane 6 launch vehicle, which succeeded the Ariane 5 rocket

The Saturn INT-21 was a study for an American orbital launch vehicle of the 1970s.

was a reusable launch system concept

originally designed by the Marquardt Corporation for use as a reaction control system thruster on vehicles of the Apollo lunar landing program

The Rocketdyne XRS-2200 was an experimental linear aerospike engine developed in the mid-1990s for the Lockheed Martin X-33 program.

the vehicles are used for orbital and suborbital missions

medium-lift launch vehicle

Launched on 24 November 2021, the DART spacecraft collided with Dimorphos at 14,000 mph (23,000 km/h) on 26 September 2022 about 6.8 million miles (10.9 million kilometers) from Earth.

robotic space probe launched by NASA

a NASA science spacecraft

Firefly Alpha (Firefly α) is a two-stage orbital expendable small lift launch vehicle developed by the American company Firefly Aerospace

Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost, or simply Blue Ghost, is a class of lunar landers designed and manufactured by the American company Firefly Aerospace.

each consisting of an orbiter and a lander, sent to Mars as part of NASA's Viking program

consisted of an orbiter and a lander essentially identical to that of the Viking 1 mission

Firefly Aerospace is one of the nine companies selected by NASA to participate in the Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program to deliver science payloads to the surface of the moon.

Developed by Lanteris Space Systems for NASA, PPE will use ion thrusters

Psyche ( SY-kee) is a NASA Discovery Program space mission launched on October 13, 2023

is a satellite bus produced by Lanteris Space Systems

The launch of EchoStar XVI was conducted by International Launch Services

The OSAM-1 mission is planned to be the first to robotically refuel a spacecraft not designed for on-orbit servicing.

carry a state-of-the-art MSS payload featuring a large unfurlable reflector.

Through the end of the twentieth century, Rocketdyne products powered all major engines for the Saturn program and every space program in the United States.

Version of Redstone engine for Jupiter-C test vehicle, with Hydyne fuel and 140 seconds burn time.

to launch satellites into low Earth orbit

As part of the Space Launch Initiative, Rocketdyne developed a plan for the RS-84 rocket engine.

a demonstrator of a small robotic lunar lander and lunar probe