Small satellite and reusable launchers that are operational, mainly developed in the past few years. Last updated on 25 May 2019.
Launcher | Company Name | Year Founded | Status | First Flight | Launches | Capacity (kg) | Launch Type | Funding(M) |
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Pegasus | Northrop Grumman Corporation | 1982 | Operational | 1990 | 43 | 443 | Plane | |
Falcon 9 | Space Exploration Technologies Corp (SpaceX) | 2002 | Operational | 2010 | 68 | 22800 | Reusable Rocket | |
New Shepard | Blue Origin, LLC | 2000 | Operational | 2015 | 10 | Reusable Rocket | ||
Vector-R | Vector Launch, Inc | 2016 | Test Flight | 2017 | 2 | 60 | Rocket | 103 |
Kuaizhou-1A | ExPace Technology Corporation, CASIC | 2016 | Operational | 2017 | 2 | 300 | Rocket | |
Hyperbola-1 | iSpace China | 2017 | Test Flight | 2018 | 2 | Rocket | ||
OS-M | One Space Tech | 2014 | Test Flight | 2018 | 2 | 205 | Rocket | 116 |
Falcon Heavy | Space Exploration Technologies Corp (SpaceX) | 2002 | Operational | 2018 | 2 | 63800 | Reusable Rocket | |
Zhuque-1 (ZQ-1) | Land Space Technology Corporation Ltd. | 2015 | Test Flight | 2018 | 1 | 300 | Rocket | 116 |
Electron | Rocket Lab USA | 2006 | Operational | 2018 | 5 | 150 | Rocket | 215 |
SSLV (ISRO) | Antrix Corporation Limited | 1969 | Planned | 2019 | 0 | 700 | Rocket | |
Alpha | Firefly Aerospace | 2014 | In Development | 2019 | 0 | 1000 | Rocket | 21.8 |
Vector-H | Vector Launch, Inc | 2016 | In Development | 2019 | 0 | 290 | Rocket | 103 |
Astra | Stealth Space Company | 2016 | Test Flight | 2019 | 2 | 100 | Rocket | |
LauncherOne | Virgin Orbit | 2004 | In Development | 2019 | 0 | 200 | Plane |