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| Attribute | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Company | Avio | Khrunichev / Roscosmos | United Launch Alliance |
| Country | 🇪🇺 Europe | 🇷🇺 Russia | 🇺🇸 USA |
| Status | In Development | Active | Retired |
| Vehicle class | Small | Heavy | Heavy |
| Propellant | Solid (P160C first stage) / LOX-methane (cryogenic upper stage) | RP-1 / LOX (RD-191, all 5 modules) | LH2 / LOX |
| Reusable | No | No | No |
| Stages | 3 | 2 | 2 |
| First flight | 2027 | 2014 | 2004 – 2024 |
| Payload to LEO | — | 24,500 kgas of [1]With KVTK cryogenic upper stage (planned); Briz-M gives ~5,400 kg GTO | 28,370 kgas of [1] ↑ Best |
| Payload to GTO | — | 5,400 kgas of [1]Briz-M upper stage. KVTK would raise this to ~7,500 kg. ↑ Best | — |
| Height | — | 64 mas of [1] | 70.7 mas of [1] ↑ Best |
| Liftoff mass | — | 773 tas of [1] ↑ Best | 733 tas of [1] |
| Success rate | — | 100%as of [2]4/4 mission successes: Dec 2014, Dec 2020, Mar 2023, Apr 2024 ↑ Best | 93.75% (15/16 full success, 1 partial failure)as of [1] |
| Total flights | — | 4as of [2] | 16as of [1] ↑ Best |
| Cost / kg LEO | — | — | — |
| Summary | The next evolution of ESA's Vega line: replaces the Zefiro-9 and AVUM+ stages with a single cryogenic LOX/methane upper stage powered by the new M10 engine, adding multi-orbit deployment flexibility. First flight is a stated target (2027), not yet flown. | Russia's new-generation heavy-lift rocket built entirely of Russian-manufactured components — a political priority after Proton-M's dependence on Ukrainian components. Five URM-1 universal rocket modules share the same propellant (RP-1/LOX), unlike Proton-M's toxic hypergolics. Flight rate remains very low. | ULA's triple-common-booster-core heavy-lift launcher, retired 2024-04-09 after its final flight; superseded by Vulcan Centaur, which ULA states offers similar heavy-lift capability at lower cost. |
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