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The global launch market reached $14.1 billion in 2024 — up 34% since 2021.
| Attribute | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Company | United Launch Alliance | Orienspace | Relativity Space |
| Country | 🇺🇸 USA | 🇨🇳 China | 🇺🇸 USA |
| Status | Retired | Active | In Development |
| Vehicle class | Heavy | Medium | Heavy |
| Propellant | LH2 / LOX | Solid (HTPB) — three core stages + four strap-on boosters | LOX / methane |
| Reusable | No | No | Yes |
| Stages | 2 | 3 | 2 |
| First flight | 2004 – 2024 | 2024 | 2026 |
| Payload to LEO | 28,370 kgas of [1] | 6,500 kgas of [1]~4,200 kg to 500 km SSO | 33,500 kg expendable / 23,500 kg with a reusable first stageas of [1]First flight targeted 2026 (stated plan, not yet confirmed flown as of this research). ↑ Best |
| Payload to GTO | — | — | — |
| Height | 70.7 mas of [1] | 30 mas of [1] | 87 mas of [1] ↑ Best |
| Liftoff mass | 733 tas of [1] ↑ Best | ~400 tas of [1] | — |
| Success rate | 93.75% (15/16 full success, 1 partial failure)as of [1] | 100%as of [2]2/2 successes: maiden flight Jan 11, 2024; second flight Oct 2025 delivered 3 commercial satellites to SSO ↑ Best | — |
| Total flights | 16as of [1] ↑ Best | 2as of [2]Both flights launched from a barge in the Yellow Sea off Haiyang, Shandong | — |
| Cost / kg LEO | — | — | ~$55M per launch (estimate)as of [1]Total launch price estimate, not a per-kg figure. ↓ Cheapest |
| Summary | ULA's triple-common-booster-core heavy-lift launcher, retired 2024-04-09 after its final flight; superseded by Vulcan Centaur, which ULA states offers similar heavy-lift capability at lower cost. | The world's most powerful solid-propellant launch vehicle and the largest rocket yet flown from a sea platform. Orienspace's barge-launched Gravity-1 gives Chinese commercial customers a mobile, weather-flexible ride for mid-inclination smallsat batches; both flights to date succeeded. | Relativity Space's Falcon-9-class successor to Terran 1, partially 3D-printed, with 13 Aeon R methalox engines on a reusable first stage; second stage and fairing expendable. |
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