Spacecraft
68 vehicles tracked — rockets, probes, landers, stations, and more.
K2 Space's first Mega Class satellite. 2 metric tons, 40m solar wingspan when deployed, 20kW power output. Manifested on SpaceX Transporter rideshare. Carries 12 national security and commercial payloads under a $60M Space Force STRATFI contract. First space firing of a 20kW krypton Hall-effect thruster; will orbit-raise LEO→MEO under electric propulsion — a first of its kind.
Two-stage orbital rocket with reusable first stage. Most frequently launched rocket in history.
Reusable crew and cargo spacecraft. Primary ISS crew transport under NASA Commercial Crew.
Reusable cargo variant of Dragon. Delivers supplies and experiments to ISS and returns samples to Earth. Only operational spacecraft capable of returning significant cargo from orbit.
Configurable spacecraft bus. Used as interplanetary cruise stage for VLF and NASA CAPSTONE missions.
Reusable medium-lift rocket in development. 8 tonnes to LEO. First stage returns to launch pad via propulsive landing. Archimedes engine burns LOX/methane. Critical path vehicle for Venus Life Finder mission. First launch targeting 2026.
Small-lift orbital rocket with partially reusable first stage. Primary vehicle for smallsat rideshare.
Fully reusable suborbital vehicle for space tourism and microgravity research. Booster and capsule both land autonomously.
NASA Artemis Human Landing System. Selected to land astronauts on the lunar south pole.
Blue Origin's large lunar lander under NASA HLS contract. Targets crewed lunar surface operations for Artemis V and beyond. Potentially rendezvous with Orion on Artemis III (2027) in LEO.
High-energy kick stage for rapid LEO-to-GEO delivery. Deneb LOX/methane engine. Cuts GEO delivery from months to under 24 hours. First commercial customer SES. First flight on Space Force VICTUS SURGO demonstration targeting 2026.
Fully reusable medium-lift rocket. 3 tonnes to LEO. Both stages are designed to land and fly again with minimal refurbishment. The upper stage uses a liquid hydrogen engine with an actively cooled metallic heat shield, eliminating disposable tiles. NSSL Phase 3 certified. First orbital attempt targeting 2026.
Reusable medium-lift rocket targeting Falcon 9 market share. 20 tonnes to LEO. Aeon R engine burns LOX/methane. Entire structure 3D-printed including the engine. First orbital attempt targeting 2026. Over $1.3B raised to develop it.
Isar Aerospace's two-stage liquid-fueled small launch vehicle, 28m tall. Carries up to 700 kg to SSO and 1,000 kg to LEO. First flight (March 2025) failed at T+30s. Second qualification flight "Onward and Upward" scrubbed at T-3s on March 25, 2026.
PLD Space's two-stage small orbital launch vehicle, 35m tall, capable of delivering up to 1,040 kg to LEO. First stage recoverable via ocean splashdown. Maiden flight targeted for late 2026 from Guiana Space Centre.
First commercial orbital data center prototype with integrated solar power, active cooling, and laser inter-satellite links for low-latency space-based compute.
UK in-space manufacturing satellite by Space Forge. Launched June 2025 on SpaceX Transporter-14. First free-flying commercial semiconductor manufacturing platform. Generated first commercial orbital plasma (Dec 31 2025) — validating gas-phase crystal growth conditions for GaN, SiC, AlN materials. Not designed to return to Earth; controlled demise planned 2026.
Low-Earth orbit navigation & timing constellation providing resilient, centimeter-level PNT as a commercial GPS alternative. Pulsar-0 demonstrator already launched.
Satellogic Mark IV-g Earth observation satellite (originally NewSat-34 "Amelia Earhart"), transferred in full to HEO in January 2026. First sub-meter resolution satellite under Australian sovereign ownership. Used as HEO's dedicated non-Earth imaging R&D testbed and provides supplementary high-resolution EO capacity.
Crewed orbital spacecraft for India’s human spaceflight programme. First uncrewed test (G1) targeted for 2026.
Earth observation satellite launched by PSLV-C62 on 12 January 2026.
First orbital demonstration unit of ultrathin transition metal dichalcogenide solar panels — targeting flight test by end of 2026.
Compact optical beacon payload for spacecraft identification and space traffic coordination. First flight demonstration on Blackwing Space Baby Bird mission (Q4 2026).
95mm × 95mm × 35mm, 100g onboard transponder delivering persistent identity and operational awareness (35 B/s data rate). Designed for integration across launch, operations, and RPO phases.
LandSpace's stainless steel, liquid oxygen-methane reusable launch vehicle. 66m tall, 9 TQ-12A engines. First flew December 3, 2025 — second stage reached 200x200km orbit but first-stage recovery failed after anomalous combustion during landing burn. Q2 2026 recovery attempt planned.
iSpace's two-stage reusable methane-LOX rocket, 69m tall, targeting 8,500 kg to LEO in reusable mode and 13,400 kg expendable. First orbital flight and first-stage sea recovery targeted for 2026.
Innospace's two-stage small orbital launch vehicle. 17.3m tall, hybrid first stage (paraffin/LOX, 25-ton thrust), methane/LOX second stage. Capable of 90kg to SSO from Alcântara. First commercial flight December 22, 2025 from Brazil — failed ~30s after liftoff. Second attempt planned H1 2026.
Portal Space Systems' first ESPA-class spacecraft. Manifested on SpaceX Transporter-18 (Q4 2026) for a year-long SSO mission demonstrating rendezvous and proximity operations, rapid retasking, and significant orbital maneuverability. Carries TRL11 video camera and Zenno Space superconducting magnetic actuator as customer payloads. 80% of components shared with Supernova.
SpaceX's lunar lander variant of Starship under NASA HLS contract. Requires orbital refueling via 10–14 tanker flights. Targets Artemis IV lunar south pole landing in 2028. Will rendezvous with Orion in LEO on Artemis III (2027).
First commercial space station module. Launches on Falcon 9, docks with Dragon. First private crewed station in history.
Cone-shaped atmospheric entry probe carrying the MIT Autofluorescence Nephelometer (AFN). Will descend through Venus cloud deck searching for organic molecules.
Orbital transfer vehicle for cislunar operations. Will carry Blue Ghost Mission 2 to lunar orbit and deploy it toward the farside. Can also operate independently for LEO/GEO hosted payload services.
Block 1 SLS for Artemis II. Core stage by Boeing, SRBs by Northrop Grumman, RS-25 engines by Aerojet Rocketdyne, ICPS by ULA. 322 feet tall, 15% more thrust than Saturn V.
Crew module + European Service Module stack for the Artemis II lunar flyby. Built by Lockheed Martin, ESM by Airbus for ESA. First crewed Orion flight. Carries 4 astronauts on 10-day free-return trajectory around the Moon.
Twin spacecraft (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) heading to Mars to study its magnetosphere and solar wind interaction. Built on Rocket Lab Photon heritage. Launched November 2025 on New Glenn NG-2. Mars arrival targeting late 2027.
Pathfinder spacecraft for Haven-1 technologies. Deployed from SpaceX Bandwagon-4 in November 2025. Captured 4K video of solar array deployment, confirmed power-positive. Made Vast the only commercial space station company to have flown its own spacecraft.
Latest GRUS microsatellite for daily global optical Earth observation.
Second thermal infrared satellite with improved multi-spectral capabilities. Launched on Muon Space Halo platform.
Second-generation thermal imaging satellite. Part of planned 9-satellite constellation targeting 10–20 daily revisits.
Small NASA lunar orbiter designed to map water ice distribution across the Moon. Launched as rideshare on IM-2 Falcon 9 in February 2025. Contact lost shortly after launch and never recovered. Mission cost $95M.
Nova-C class lunar lander. Reached the southernmost point ever for a lunar landing at Mons Mouton in March 2025, but tipped sideways inside a crater after an altimeter failure. Second consecutive sideways landing for Intuitive Machines.
AstroForge asteroid prospecting spacecraft. Intended to perform the first ever private flyby of a metallic asteroid. Launched as rideshare on IM-2 Falcon 9 in February 2025. Communications were never established after deployment.
Multi-mission space vehicle for in-space transportation, hosted payloads, and power delivery. First flew as DarkSky-1 pathfinder on NG-1 in Jan 2025. Supports 4,000 kg payload across 13 ports with 3,000 m/s delta-v capability.
Heavy-lift orbital rocket with reusable first stage. First flight January 2025.
Commercial lunar lander under NASA CLPS. Mission 1 completed the first fully successful commercial Moon landing in March 2025 at Mare Crisium. 45 m3 payload volume, 400W power, LEROS-4 main engine. Designed for annual missions.
8U CubeSat with advanced thermal infrared cameras for global wildfire detection. Part of OroraTech's expanding constellation.
Hyperspectral imaging satellite using deployable optics for high-resolution Earth observation.
Hydrosat's first thermal infrared satellite providing high-resolution thermal data for agriculture and resource management.
Acadia-generation SAR satellite launched on SpaceX Transporter mission.
Third-generation SAR satellite with improved 700 MHz bandwidth and faster delivery times.
Productized 100 kg satellite bus platform with up to 150 kg payload capacity. Set world record for fastest clean-sheet-to-orbit satellite. Built for Anduril, BAE Systems, and commercial remote sensing customers. Production rate targeting 18 per month.
Active Debris Removal by Astroscale Japan. First spacecraft to perform proximity operations around a large piece of uncontrolled orbital debris, a 3-tonne Japanese H-IIA rocket body. Demonstrated station-keeping and inspection at close range in 2024.
First American spacecraft to soft-land on the Moon since Apollo 17. Landed tilted near lunar south pole, February 2024. First commercial soft landing on Moon.
First Astrobotic CLPS lander. Propulsion anomaly post-launch in January 2024 prevented lunar landing. Reentered Earth atmosphere.
Second-generation high-resolution optical imaging satellite providing real-time geospatial intelligence.
Flight-proven orbital transfer vehicle for LEO hosted payloads and last-mile satellite delivery. Saiph bipropellant thrusters, 500-900 m/s delta-v. Two successful LEO Express missions flown. Used for Space Force VICTUS responsive space demonstrations.
First commercial in-space manufacturing spacecraft. Used Rocket Lab Photon bus. Manufactured ritonavir crystals in microgravity in 2023, returned them via a reentry capsule landing in Utah in 2024. First pharmaceutical product manufactured in space.
World's first commercial high-resolution thermal imaging satellite. Demonstrated 3.5m thermal video and still imagery.
Fully reusable super heavy-lift launch system. Super Heavy booster + Starship upper stage. Target: Mars colonization and Artemis HLS.
Largest and most powerful space telescope ever deployed. Observes in infrared from Sun-Earth L2 point.
Small-lift orbital rocket. 1,000 kg to LEO. Had a rough start (two anomalies) but reached operational status 2023. Uses in-house Reaver and Lightning engines on LOX/RP-1. Competes with Rocket Lab Electron for smallsat market.
Mars 2020 rover. Searches for signs of ancient life, collects samples for future return, and deployed Ingenuity helicopter.
Closest approach to the Sun ever achieved. Touched the solar corona Dec 2021. 7-year primary mission with 24 Venus gravity assists. Perihelion < 10 solar radii.
Three-core heavy-lift rocket. Two reusable side boosters land simultaneously at the Cape. The most powerful operational rocket until Starship. Flies national security, NASA, and commercial payloads.
International Space Station. Continuously crewed since Nov 2000. LEO at 408km, 51.6° inclination. Deorbit planned ~2030.
NASA/ESA/ASI flagship mission to Saturn. Orbited Saturn 294 times over 13 years. Grand Finale: intentional atmospheric entry Sep 15 2017. Discovered Enceladus ocean plumes and Titan lakes.
Farthest human-made object. In interstellar space since 2012. Still transmitting as of 2026 — 24+ billion km from Sun. Carries Golden Record.
Only spacecraft to visit all four outer planets. Entered interstellar space 2018. Still transmitting. Carries Golden Record.
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