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— Rockets included with current filters: · Soyuz · Atlas · Delta · Proton · old Long March · | · Ariane · Zenit · H · Shavit · Pegasus · PSLV/GSLV · START · Minotaur · Rokot · | · Falcon · Vega · Unha (Safir, Simorgh) · KSLV (Naro, Nuri) · Antares · Epsilon · Kuaizhou (Kaituozhe, Long March 11, Smart Dragon, Landspace, OS-M, Hyperbola) · Angara (Amur) · new Long March · Electron · LauncherOne · Astra · Alpha · Neptune · | · Vector · Phantom Express · OmegA · | · SSLV · SLS · RS1 · Vulcan · Starship · New Glenn · RFA · Terran · Blue Whale · New Line · Prime · Dawn · Hapith · Nebula · Haas · Bloostar (Miura, Tronador) · Skylon —
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— Rockets included with current filters: · R7/Soyuz · Atlas · Delta · Proton · Long March (old) · | · Ariane · Zenit (Irtysh, Yenisei) · H · Shavit · Pegasus · PSLV, GSLV · START · Minotaur · Rokot · | · Falcon · Vega · Unha, Safir, Simorgh · KSLV/Naro/Nuri · Antares · Epsilon · Chinese solids · Angara (Amur) · Long March (new) · Electron · LauncherOne · Astra · Alpha · Neptune · | · Vector · Phantom Express · OmegA · | · SSLV · SLS · RS1 · Vulcan · Starship · New Glenn · RFA · Terran · Blue Whale · New Line · Prime · Dawn · Hapith · Nebula · Haas · Bloostar (Miura) · Skylon —
— Spacecraft and stations included with current filters: · Soyuz · Shenzhou · Dragon · CST-100 Starliner · Orion · Dream Chaser · Next-Generation · Gaganyaan · Starship · Orel · cargo carriers · | · ISS · CLMSS/Tiangong · LOP-G — (Note that only the last two filters, creator and origin, apply here.)
This is the period where big-budget governmental rockets fade into the background, and for-profit corporations become the leaders in advancing spaceflight. SpaceX brought the revolutionary Falcon, and Orbital upped their game with the Antares, before being taken over by Northrup Grumman. Small startups developed small rockets: the Electron is succeeding, and the LauncherOne, maybe the Astra, and possibly the Alpha look fairly ready to do likewise, while some other ventures drop away. With price competition now a major factor in the launch business for the first time, Russia struggles to develop a modernized replacement rocket called the Angara to cover a wide range of lift capacities, while eyeing reusability for a followup effort, trying to maintain its legacy as a space superpower despite an economy less and less able to support such extravagances. China, where both money and ambition are currently very plentiful, is revamping their Long March line with a series of advanced designs, and making big plans for how to use them. Japan modernized their small-launch capability with the cost-conscious Epsilon, the ESA did likewise with the Vega, and various Chinese companies did so with multiple small rockets based on military missiles: the Kuaizhou, Kaituozhe, Long March 11, and others, while small startups like i-Space and Galactic Energy seemed to have access to the same solid fuel tech as the governmental aerospace outfits. Meanwhile the North Koreans and Iranians teamed up to create orbital rockets with the Safir, Unha, and Simorgh, and the South Koreans answered with the Naro and the Nuri, proving that national space programs are now within reach of countries outside the first world.
— Rockets included with current filters: · Falcon · Vega · Unha, Safir, Simorgh · KSLV/Naro/Nuri · Antares · Epsilon · Chinese solids · Angara (Amur) · Long March (new) · Electron · LauncherOne · Astra · Alpha · Neptune —