The rockets, to scale
Every silhouette is drawn to the same scale. The orange dot on the ground is a person (1.8 m / 6 ft). Hover a rocket for its numbers.
Head to head
Pick any two. Bars are scaled to the larger of the pair for each metric.
Sources: Launch Library 2 · costs are list prices where published; Saturn V cost is inflation-adjusted historical.
Spec sheets
Falcon 9
SpaceX
Active Reusable
70 m · 22.8 t to LEO
604 launches · 99.8% success · 80 in 2026
Falcon Heavy
SpaceX
Active Reusable
70 m · 63.8 t to LEO
12 launches · 100% success · 1 in 2026
Starship
SpaceX
Active
124.4 m · 100 t to LEO
21 launches · 61.9% success · 1 in 2026
New Glenn
Blue Origin
Active Reusable
98 m · 45 t to LEO
3 launches · 66.7% success · 1 in 2026
Vulcan VC2S
United Launch Alliance
Active
61.6 m · 19 t to LEO
4 launches · 100% success · 1 in 2026
Atlas V 551
Lockheed Martin
Retired
59.7 m · 18.9 t to LEO
23 launches · 100% success · 4 in 2026
Electron
Unknown
Active
18 m · 300 kg to LEO
91 launches · 95.6% success · 12 in 2026
Space Launch System (SLS)
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Active
98 m · 95 t to LEO
2 launches · 100% success · 1 in 2026
Saturn V
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Retired
110.6 m · 140 t to LEO
13 launches · 92.3% success
Space Shuttle
Unknown
Retired Reusable
56.1 m · 27.5 t to LEO
135 launches · 98.5% success