Launch vehicle registry

Five launch vehicles with their published stages, engines, liftoff thrust and payload to each destination.

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Saturn V

F-1 and J-2 engines

Height: 111m; 364.2 ftApproximate
Liftoff thrust: 7,500,000lbf; 33,360 kNApproximate
Payload to LEO: 118,000kg; 260,100 lbApproximate, expendable

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Saturn V and its red launch umbilical tower on the crawler-transporter, climbing the pad incline — The Apollo 11 Saturn V arriving at Launch Complex 39A on the crawler-transporter, May 1969. Photo: NASA (Project Apollo Archive). Public domain. Source file.

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Height is as published. Liftoff thrust is converted to meganewtons, for the configuration each record describes.

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Heights to one scale

Starship stands 54 m taller than Falcon 9. Each outline is traced from a published drawing and scaled to the height in its record.

Fig. 1Each launch vehicle at its recorded height, all to one scale. The records give no diameter, so widths follow the source drawings at the same scale. Space Launch System (SLS) and Saturn V outlines traced from U.S. government drawings, public domain. Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy: Lucabon (based on work of Markus Säynevirta, Craigboy and Rressi), via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0; cropped, labels removed, outline shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source. Starship: FloraFallenrose, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0; cropped, labels removed, outline shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source. Every source is listed on the credits page.

About these figures

Figures are published specifications. A figure set under another is an ORBIX conversion, and thrust is shown in MN. See sources and image credits.