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Loading contentLaunch vehicles designed to recover and re-fly hardware, from the Space Shuttle to Falcon 9 and Starship.
NASA's partially reusable crewed launch system — a winged orbiter with an external tank and two solid rocket boosters — that flew 135 missions building the ISS and servicing Hubble.
A partially reusable two-stage orbital rocket by SpaceX, the most-flown vehicle in the world with a reusable first stage.
Blue Origin's fully reusable suborbital vehicle for research payloads and crewed flights above the Kármán line; it lands its booster propulsively.
A small-lift orbital rocket by Rocket Lab for dedicated small-satellite launches, with electric-pump-fed engines and recoverable first stages.
A heavy-lift rocket by SpaceX built from three Falcon 9 cores, with reusable side boosters.
A fully reusable super heavy-lift launch system by SpaceX intended for crewed and cargo flights to orbit, the Moon, and Mars.
A heavy-lift, partially reusable rocket developed by Blue Origin, with a reusable BE-4-powered first stage.
Rocket Lab's reusable medium-lift methane/LOX rocket in development, with a reusable first stage and integrated fairing.
Relativity Space's reusable heavy-lift methane/LOX rocket, built largely by large-scale additive manufacturing.
PLD Space's orbital small-lift rocket in development, following the suborbital Miura 1, with plans to recover the first stage.