Vehicle catalog
Launch vehicles, by the numbers
Honest headline specs from public sources. Staged Δv is computed in the Rust engine — pick one on the Flight Deck to check whether it can reach your destination, or build your own in the Vehicle Assembly Building.
Saturn V (AS-506)
The Moon rocket. 2,938 t on the pad to send ~48 t to the Moon.
- Stages
- 3
- LEO
- 140 t
- Mass
- 2,889 t
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Falcon 9 (Block 5)
The workhorse. Reusable kerolox two-stage; ~22.8 t to LEO expendable.
- Stages
- 2
- LEO
- 23 t
- Mass
- 518 t
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Falcon Heavy
Three Falcon cores, 27 engines. ~63.8 t to LEO; can throw real mass to the Moon.
- Stages
- 3
- LEO
- 64 t
- Mass
- 1,360 t
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SLS Block 1
NASA's Artemis launcher. ~95 t to LEO, ~27 t toward the Moon.
- Stages
- 3
- LEO
- 95 t
- Mass
- 2,557 t
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Space Shuttle (STS)
Reusable orbiter + boosters. ~27.5 t to LEO (most of it the orbiter itself).
- Stages
- 2
- LEO
- 28 t
- Mass
- 1,938 t
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Starship (V2)
Fully reusable methalox giant. Target ~100–150 t to LEO. Developmental.
- Stages
- 2
- LEO
- 100 t
- Mass
- 4,920 t
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