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SpaceShipTwo (Virgin Galactic)

The Scaled Composites Model 339 SpaceShipTwo (SS2) is an air-launched suborbital spaceplane type designed for space tourism. It is manufactured by The Spaceship Company, a California-based company own…

SPARTA (Chrysler)

The Sparta was a three-stage rocket that launched Australia’s first Earth satellite, WRESAT, on 29 November 1967….

SR75 (HyImpulse)

Single-stage suborbital sounding rocket developed by German private company HyImpulse. Used to offer commercial microgravity services and as a test bed for the company’s SL1 orbital rocket….

SS-520-4 (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency)

The fourth configuration of SS-520. It would have been the smallest and lightest vehicle to put something into orbit, but it lost telemetry and was told to abort, falling into the ocean….

SSLV (Indian Space Research Organization)

Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (or SSLV) is a launch vehicle being developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) with payload capacity of 500 kg to Low Earth orbit or 300 kg to Sun synchr…