List of worlds largest space launch systems

[kurup]

The payload is not the most important thing. The most important thing is how many choice you have. For small payload there should be small rocket, for big one there is big rocket. Otherwise, for a small satelite,you have to launch a bigger rocket. That is fine but costy.

For Indian rockets, they are big but the playload......
PSLV
first stage trust 1,090,000 lbf
GTO 1410 kg

LongMatch 3C
first stage trust 732,000 Ibf
GTO 3,800 kg

Yes PSLV has a powerful engine but......I have no comment....

Again stupid comparison ....... Thrust is not the only factor that determine the payload capacity of a LV , there are others like Impulse and Specific Impulse .

 

[kolinsky]

Again stupid comparison ....... Thrust is not the only factor that determine the payload capacity of a LV , there are others like Impulse and Specific Impulse .

Of course that is the question your research team to answer. Why...

 

[Biplab Bijay]

10. Atlas V 551 (USA)

Weight - 587 t
Height - 62.2 m
Payload to LEO - 18,500 kg
2002/2006-*

Atlas V had 43 launches with 1 partial failure. Atlas V 551 had 4 successful launches. Active.

11. H-IIB (Japan)

Weight - 531 t
Height - 56.6 m
Payload to LEO - 19,000 kg
2009-*

Developed from H-II/A with two first stage engines instead of 1. 4 successful launches. Active.

12. Falcon 9 v1.1 (USA)

Weight - 506 t
Height - 68.4 m
Payload to LEO - 13,150 kg
2010/2013-*

Very similar in design to Falcon 9 v1.0 but much larger. 3 successful launches. v1.0 had 5 successful launches (1 partial). Active.

13. Zenit-3F (USSR/Ukraine/Russia)

Weight - 471 t
Height - 59.6 m
Payload to LEO - 13,740 kg
1985-*

All versions of Zenit had total 81 launches, 10 failures and 3 partial failures. Active.

14. Ariane 44L (Europe)

Weight - 470 t
Height - 58.4 m
Payload to LEO - 10,200 kg
1988-2003

Derived from Ariane III. 116 launches total, 3 failures. Retired.

15. Long March 2F (China)

Weight - 464 t
Height - 62 m
Payload to LEO - 8,400 kg
1999-*

11 successful launches. A very similar in size and design Long March 3B (payload to LEO 12,000 kg) had 25 launches, 1 failure and 1 partial failure. Both active.

16. GSLV (India)

Weight - 414 t
Height - 49 m
Payload to LEO - 5,000+ kg
2001-*

8 launches, 4 failures, 1 partial failure. Active.

17. Soyuz-U (USSR/Russia)

Weight - 313 t
Height - 51.1 m
Payload to LEO - 6,900 kg
1973-*

A largest member of Soyuz and R-7 family. 727 launches 19 failures. The most launched space system ever. Active.

The entire R-7 family had 1701 space launches so far including 1600 successful.
The Soyuz family had 905 space launches including 880 successful.

18. Delta III 8000 (USA)

Weight - 301 t
Height - 35 m
Payload to LEO - 8,290 kg
1998-2000

Derived from successful Delta II family but much heavier. 3 launches with 2 failures and 1 partial success. Retired.

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All other systems are much lighter or are subclasses of the systems mentioned above.

Wow. Nice work. So USA space launching vehicle can lunch above 100000 Kg ?

 

[NP-complete]

NASA scientists from Apollo days were geniuses. Unsurprisingly mostly were Germans.

 

[Astra-2013]

The payload is not the most important thing. The most important thing is how many choice you have. For small payload there should be small rocket, for big one there is big rocket. Otherwise, for a small satelite,you have to launch a bigger rocket. That is fine but costy.

For Indian rockets, they are big but the playload......
PSLV
first stage trust 1,090,000 lbf
GTO 1410 kg

LongMatch 3C
first stage trust 732,000 Ibf
GTO 3,800 kg

Yes PSLV has a powerful engine but......I have no comment....

But its cheapest to launch satellite in LEO using PSLV , keeping cost down is also important.
for launching satellite in GTO we have GSLV

 

[kolinsky]

But its cheapest to launch satellite in LEO using PSLV , keeping cost down is also important.
for launching satellite in GTO we have GSLV

The payload performance of GSLV is not clearly better than PSLV and the record of GSLV is a little awful.

India has some privilege, e.g., the Indian territory is partly very close to the equator. There is also disadvantage, e.g., the bad records.

 

[Astra-2013]

The payload performance of GSLV is not clearly better than PSLV and the record of GSLV is a little awful.

India has some privilege, e.g., the Indian territory is partly very close to the equator. There is also disadvantage, e.g., the bad records.

ISRO only recently perfected GSLV with gslv d5 launch. otherwise there were some problems in every gslv launches.
so with new launches , success record will get better like PSLV.

 

[doremon]

I like that information above but I won't like the posts of the citizen of a Zionist and racist state.

thats like saying muslims are evil .since some muslims are terrorist....

 

[Interceptor2014]

NESCOM-SUPARCO might launched the new satellite with our own Launchers.

 

[kurup]

Of course that is the question your research team to answer. Why...

One is solid booster and another is liquid fuelled ..... So they are obviously different .

 

[kolinsky]

ISRO only recently perfected GSLV with gslv d5 launch. otherwise there were some problems in every gslv launches.
so with new launches , success record will get better like PSLV.

That is possible, but the rate is very important. I am afraid that recently no other country will choose GSLV, untill india can proove the security as well as the insurance institutions. Additionally, the launches per year in india is only 1 or 3 times for all variants.

 

[gslv mk3]

it is you jealous self bragging people who are eager to put india on some lists so as to blow up your fast deflating egoes
even with the massive support by the russians india's rocket is at the bottom last on the list in terms of payloads @ just 5t and

@Chak Bamu Hope this counts as an OT post.

We have larger SRBs than S 125...S 200 for gslv mk3 with thrust of 5151 kN