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United Launch Alliance

Atlas V

Atlas V uses a standard common core booster, up to five solid rocket boosters (SRBs), a Centaur upper stage in a single- or dual-engine configuration, and one of several sizes of payload fairings. Atlas V is on NASA's Launch Services II contract.

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👁 Its motors blazing, the United Launch Alliance Atlas V-551 launch vehicle carrying NASA's Juno planetary probe is off to a roaring start after lifting off from Space Launch Complex 41.
Its motors blazing, the United Launch Alliance Atlas V-551 launch vehicle carrying NASA’s Juno planetary probe is off to a roaring start on its five-year journey to Jupiter from Space Launch Complex 41 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
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Rocket Lab

Electron

Rocket Lab's Electron is the only reusable orbital-class small rocket. Capturing and reflying Electron’s first stage enables higher launch frequency without expanding production and lowers launch costs.

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👁 Rocket Lab's Electron rocket is seen at Launch Complex 1 in Mahia, New Zealand.
A wet dress rehearsal is underway for Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket at Launch Complex 1 in Mahia, New Zealand on April 28, 2023. NASA’s Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats (TROPICS) CubeSats are secured in the payload fairing atop the rocket.
Rocket Lab
SpaceX

Falcon 9

Falcon 9 is a reusable, two-stage rocket designed and manufactured by SpaceX for the reliable and safe transport of people and payloads into Earth orbit and beyond. Falcon 9 is the world’s first orbital class reusable rocket. Reusability allows SpaceX to refly the most expensive parts of the rocket, which in turn drives down the cost of space access. Falcon 9 is on NASA's Launch Services II contract.

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👁 The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART, spacecraft onboard, is seen during sunrise, Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2021, at Space Launch Complex 4E, Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART, spacecraft onboard, is seen during sunrise, Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2021, at Space Launch Complex 4E, Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
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SpaceX

Falcon Heavy

Falcon Heavy is composed of three reusable Falcon 9 nine-engine cores whose 27 Merlin engines together generate more than 5 million pounds of thrust at liftoff, equal to approximately eighteen 747 aircraft. As one of the world’s most powerful operational rockets, Falcon Heavy can lift nearly 64 metric tons (141,000 lbs.) to orbit. Falcon Heavy is on NASA's Launch Services II contract.

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A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket carrying the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) GOES-U (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite U) lifts off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Tuesday, June 25, 2024.
SpaceX
Blue Origin

New Glenn

Named after John Glenn, the first American astronaut to orbit Earth, New Glenn is a single-configuration, heavy-lift orbital launch vehicle with a first stage designed for a minimum of 25 flights. Powered by seven Blue Engine 4 (BE-4) engines, it can carry more than 13 metric tons to geostationary transfer orbit and 45 metric tons to low Earth orbit. New Glenn is on NASA’s Launch Services II contract.

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Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket carrying NASA’s twin ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) spacecraft launches at 3:55 p.m. EST, Thursday, Nov. 13, 2025, from Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
Blue Origin
Northrop Grumman

Pegasus XL

The three-stage Pegasus XL rocket is used to deploy small satellites weighing up to 1,000 pounds (453.59 kg) into low-Earth orbit. Pegasus is carried aloft by the Stargazer L-1011 aircraft to approximately 40,000 feet over open ocean, where it is released and free-falls five seconds before igniting its first stage rocket motor. With its unique delta-shaped wing, Pegasus typically delivers satellites into orbit in a little over 10 minutes. Pegasus is on NASA's Launch Services II contract.

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SpaceX

Starship

SpaceX’s Starship spacecraft and Super Heavy rocket – collectively referred to as Starship – represent a fully reusable transportation system designed to carry both crew and cargo to Earth orbit, the Moon, Mars, and beyond. Starship is on NASA’s Launch Services II contract.

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👁 Image shows a blue sky with clouds during the liftoff of SpaceX's Starship at 6:30 p.m. CDT on Aug. 26, 2025, from Starbase, Texas. Photo credit: SpaceX
SpaceX’s tenth flight test of Starship lifting off on Aug. 26, 2025, at 6:30 p.m. CDT from Starbase, Texas.
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United Launch Alliance

Vulcan

Vulcan is United Launch Alliance’s next generation rocket available in four standard offering configurations including zero, two, four and six solid rocket booster variants. ULA will launch Vulcan from both Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida and Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Vulcan is on NASA's Launch Services II contract.

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On Friday, Jan. 5, 2024, United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket carrying Astrobotic’s Peregrine lunar lander is rolled out of the Vertical Integration Facility to the launch pad at Space Launch Complex 41 on Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida in advance of a planned lift off at 2:18 a.m. EST Monday, Jan. 8, 2024. Astrobotic’s Peregrine Mission One will carry NASA and commercial payloads to the Moon to study the lunar exosphere, thermal properties, and hydrogen abundance of the lunar regolith, magnetic fields, and the radiation environment of the lunar surface.
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