List of canceled launch vehicle designs
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Even before the launch ofSputnik 1,there were various types oflaunch vehicle designs.The launch vehicle designs described below are either canceled or never left the drawing board.
20th century[edit]
21st century[edit]
Name | Designer | Proposed | Canceled |
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Ares IV | NASA | 2000s | 2010 |
Ares V Lite | |||
Jupiter | DIRECT | 2010 | |
Falcon 1e | SpaceX | 2011 | |
Haas | ARCAspace | ||
Orbital Space Plane Program | NASA | 2002 | 2004 |
Falcon 5 | SpaceX | 2003 | 2005 |
Galaxy Express | Galaxy Express Corporation | 2009 | |
Ares I | NASA | 2005 | 2010 |
Ares V | |||
Rocketplane XP | Rocketplane Kistler | 2011 | |
Shuttle-Derived Heavy Lift Launch Vehicle | NASA | 2009 | 2010 |
Liberty | ATKandAstrium | 2011 | 2012 |
Falcon 9 Air | SpaceX | ||
Mars Colonial Transporter | 2012 | 2016 | |
Interplanetary Transport System | 2016 | 2017 | |
Big Falcon Rocket | 2017 | 2018 | |
OmegA | Northrop Grumman | 2016 | 2020 |
See also[edit]
- Comparison of orbital launch systems
- Non-rocket spacelaunch
- List of orbital launch systems
- List of private spaceflight companies#Crew and cargo transport vehicles
- Spaceplane
- List of crewed lunar lander designs
Further reading[edit]
- SP-4221 The Space Shuttle DecisionChapter 8(NASA)
- Dr. Wernher Von Braun (July 1970).The Spaceplane that can put you in orbit.
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ignored (help) - T.A. Heppenheimer-SP-4221 The Space Shuttle Decision(NASA, 1998)
External links[edit]
- INTRODUCTION TO FUTURE LAUNCH VEHICLE PLANS [1963-2001] by Marcus Lindroos (Updated 6/15/2001)
- Space Future - Vehicle Designs
- Category:Proposed or planned spacecraft (Wikimedia Commons)
- 10 Space Shuttles which never flew (Lockheed Starclipper, Chrysler SERV, Phase B Shuttles, Rockwell C-1057, Shuttle C, Air Launched Sortie Vehicle (ALSV), Hermes, Buran, Shuttle II, Lockheed Martin VentureStar)