Space launch vehicles of the United States

two-stage orbital launch vehicle

American ballistic missile

four-stage American booster rocket

American small-lift launch vehicle

LauncherOne was a two-stage orbital launch vehicle developed and flown by Virgin Orbit that had operational flights from 2021 to 2023, after being in development from 2007 to 2020. It was an air-launched rocket, designed to carry smallsat payloads of up to into Sun-synchronous orbit (SSO), following air launch from a carrier aircraft at high altitude. The rocket was carried to the upper atmosphere on a modified Boeing 747-400, named Cosmic Girl, and released over ocean. Initial work on the program was done by Virgin Galactic, another Virgin Group subsidiary, before a separate entity — Virgin O

American transport aircraft

American space launch vehicle used during the late 1950s and early 1960s

Lockheed Martin expendable launch system

American rocket family

The Jupiter-C was an American research and development vehicle developed from the Jupiter-A. Jupiter-C was used for three uncrewed sub-orbital spaceflights in 1956 and 1957 to test re-entry nosecones that were later to be deployed on the more advanced PGM-19 Jupiter mobile missile. The recovered nosecone was displayed in the Oval Office as part of President Dwight D. Eisenhower's televised speech on November 7, 1957.

two-stage orbital launch vehicle

space launch vehicle program of the United States Space Force

rocket family

three-stage rocket that launched Australia's first Earth satellite, WRESAT, on 29 November 1967

American expendable launch vehicle

rocket type

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U.S. expendable launch system

retired expendable two-stage, 3D-printed, small-lift launch vehicle

launch vehicles developed and operated by SpaceX

American expendable launch system

American expendable launch system

American expendable launch system

proposed family of heav-lift launch vehicles

partially-reusable launch vehicle in-development by Relativity Space

American unguided anti-aircraft rocket developed into a rounding rocket

family of launch vehicles developed by Astra