Current Rockets:

Mankind is currently going to space on a frequent basis.

Let's have a look at some of the rockets that is making this possible and that were currently using.

Falcon Heavy Demo Mission (6 February 2018). Photo Credit : SpaceX, via Wikimedia Commons.

Falcon Heavy

Falcon Heavy is a partially reusable heavy-lift launch vehicle designed and manufactured by SpaceX.

NRO payload launch (18 January 2019). Photo Credit : Public domain. U.S. Air Force photo by Michael Peterson, via Wikimedia Commons.

Delta IV Heavy

The Delta IV Heavy (Delta 9250H) is an expendable heavy-lift launch vehicle, the largest type of the Delta IV family

Ariane 5ES with ATV 4 on its way to ELA-3 . Photo Credit : DLR German Aerospace Center photostream. https://www.flickr.com/photos/48213136@N06/8958839420.

Ariane 5

Ariane 5 is a European heavy-lift space launch vehicle developed and operated by Arianespace for the European Space Agency (ESA).

Long March 5 Y2 . Photo Credit : 篁竹水声. Attribution, via Wikimedia Commons.

Long March 5 (LM-5; Chinese: 长征五号; pinyin: Chángzhēng wǔ hào), also known as Chang Zheng 5 (CZ-5), is a Chinese heavy-lift launch vehicle developed by the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALT)

Proton-M rocket prepared for launch. Photo Credit : alexpgp via Flickr and wikipedia commons : http://flickr.com/photo/44218706@N00/4888868768.

Proton-M

The Proton-M, (Протон-М) GRAU index 8K82M or 8K82KM, is an expendable Russian heavy-lift launch vehicle derived from the Soviet-developed Proton.

Long March 7 Model . Photo Credit : Pline. via Wikimedia Commons.

Long March 7

The Long March 7 (Chinese: 长征七号运载火箭), or Chang Zheng 7 in pinyin, abbreviated LM-7 for export or CZ-7 within China, originally Long March 2F/H or Chang Zheng 2F/H, nicknamed Bingjian (冰箭; 'the Ice Arrow'), is a Chinese liquid-fuelled launch vehicle of the Long March family, developed by the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation.

H IIA No. F23 with GPM (27 February 2014). Photo Credit : NASA. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

H-IIA

H-IIA (H-2A) is an active expendable launch system operated by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.

Launch of the first Minotaur-IV-Lite rocket (22 April 2010). Photo Credit : Public domain. U.S. Air Force, via Wikimedia Commons.

Minotaur IV

Minotaur IV, also known as Peacekeeper SLV and OSP-2 PK is an active expendable launch system derived from the LGM-118 Peacekeeper ICBM.

NROL-108 Mission. Photo Credit : SpaceX, via Flicker.

Falcon 9 Block 5

Falcon 9 Block 5 is a partially reusable two-stage-to-orbit medium-lift launch vehicle designed and manufactured in the United States by SpaceX.

Soyuz-2.1a rocket. Photo Credit : Arie via Wikipedia commons.

Soyuz 2

Soyuz-2 (GRAU index 14A14) is a modernised version of the Soviet Soyuz rocket. In its basic form, it is a three-stage launch vehicle for placing payloads into low Earth orbit

PSLV-C35 (23 September 2016). Photo Credit : ISRO, Department of Space, Government of India. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV)

The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) is an expendable medium-lift launch vehicle designed and operated by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)

. Render of Electron Rocket. Photo Credit : Fac-tory-o via Wikipedia commons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Electron_Orthographic.png

Electron

Electron is a two-stage, partially recoverable orbital launch vehicle developed by Rocket Lab.

Photo Credit : Artist's rendering of the Space Launch System Block 1 sitting on Launch Pad 39A with the Orion spacecraft at sunrise. , via public domain Nasa wikipedia commons.

Space Launch System(SLS)

The Space Launch System (SLS) is an American super heavy-lift expendable launch vehicle, which has been under development by NASA since its announcement in 2011.

Photo Credit : United Launch Alliance , via public domain wikipedia commons.

Vulcan Centaur

Vulcan Centaur is a two-stage-to-orbit, heavy-lift launch vehicle that is under development by the United Launch Alliance (ULA) since 2014 with an initial flight expected in 2021

Firefly Alpha lifting off the pad at Vandenberg Space Force Base on September 2, 2021. Photo Credit : JacobRendon via Wikipedia commons.

Firefly Alpha

Firefly Alpha (Firefly α) is a two-stage orbital expendable small lift launch vehicle developed by the American company Firefly Aerospace to compete in the commercial small satellite launch market.

"You need to be in the position where it is the cost of the fuel that actually matters and not the cost of building the rocket in the first place."

-Elon Musk

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