Rockets

Rocket Development

Timeline

Proposed New Chemical Rockets up to 2022

MASSIVE Proposed rockets

SpaceX - StarShip  generation 2 system (18 meter diameter)

SUPER HEAVY (100 tons+ to LEO)

SpaceX - Falcon Super Heavy part of the Interplanetary Transport System (ITS) 12 meter diameter

SpaceX - Starship BFR(ITSy) Luna/LEO (9 meter diameter)

Russia - Energiya-5

China - Mega Rocket

Blue Origin - New Armstrong

HEAVY

China - Long March 5 and Long March 9

SpaceX - FALCON HEAVY

NASA - SLS

Russia - Angara-5

Blue Origin'New Glenn'

MEDIUM

China - Long March 7    Private - Tianlong-2 

China - Long March 8 (test of reusability of 1st stage)

Landspace  - Zhuque-2 rocket (private China)

ESA - Ariane 6

Japan - Flagship launch vehicle H3

Russia - Angara-1 , Amur

Ukraine & Brazil - Cyclone 4 and VLM-1

Orbital ATK - Antares 300 - NGL

RocketLab - Neutron (in development for 2024)

SMALL

Astra - (USA)

Gilmour Space - Eris (Australia)

OHB - mini-launcher (Germany)

OneSpace - OS-M (China)

Orbex - Prime (UK)

Interstellar Technologies - Momo (Japan)

 Isar Aerospace - Spectrum (Germany)

RocketLabs - Electron (New Zealand/USA)

Shinkansen - New Line - 1 (China)

StarChaser - SkyBolt2 + Nova2 (England)

Relativity Space - Terran 1 (USA) 3D printed

Other

Firefly - http://www.fireflyspace.com/

DARPA's XS-1

Northrop Grumman - TR106/107

Blue Origin - 'New Shepard'(Suborbital) and 'New Glenn' or 'Very Big Brother' also on the drawing board is the Super Heavy 'New Armstrong' Rocket

China - Long March 6 Kuaizhou-11

Airbus - ADELINE

CAS Space (Suborbital)

Current Chemical Rockets

ESA: Ariane 5, Vega

USA: Atlas 5, Delta 4, Pegasus, Minotaur, Antares SpaceX - Falcon 9 Block 5  and Falcon Heavy

China: Long March families 2, 3 and 4  Long March 5 , 6, 7,  Long March 11

India: PSLV, GSLV, GSLV Mk3

Israel: Shavit

Iran: Safir, Simorgh

Japan: H-II, Epsilon

North Korea:  Unha-3

South Korea: Kslv

Russian: Proton, Soyuz, Zenit, Kosmos, Start

History

American: Redstone, Gemini, Mercury, Saturn V (Moon Rocket), Space Shuttle, Atlas 1-4, Titan, Delta 1-3

China: Long March 1

EAS: Ariane family 1-4

Russian: Vostoc, Energia, N1

German: V2(A4), Otrag

Briton: Black Arrow, Blue Streak

SpaceX: Falcon 1,  Falcon 9,   Falcon 9v2 , Starship (in development for 2021)

Historic Ideas

Sea Dragon - 1962 design study for a two-stage sea-launched orbital super heavy-lift launch vehicle.

Aquarius

ROOST - 1960 design of a reusable single stage to orbit LH2/Lox booster.

Proposed Nuclear Rocket

Russia - Zeus

USA - DRACO  targeted for 2027 Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations (DRACO)