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All Commercial American Launch Vehicles

Launch vehicles developed and operated by American commercial companies, from the air-launched Pegasus and LauncherOne to the heavy Falcon Heavy, Vulcan Centaur, New Glenn and Terran R. A vehicle belongs here when its cited article names a private company as developer or operator. Members are placed here from their own cited Wikipedia articles, each with a verbatim supporting quotation, so a reader can check why an entry sits in this group. The grouping forms part of the browse path for this section of the atlas.

All Commercial American Launch Vehicles
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Pegasus (rocket) (Wikipedia)
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Pegasus was an air-launched, small-lift launch vehicle developed by Orbital Sciences Corporation and later built and launched by Northrop Grumman.
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Minotaur (rocket family) (Wikipedia)
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The Minotaur is a family of United States solid-fuel launch vehicles derived from retired Minuteman and Peacekeeper intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM).
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Antares (rocket) (Wikipedia)
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Antares (), known during early development as Taurus II, is an American expendable medium-lift launch vehicle developed by Orbital Sciences Corporation with financial support from NASA under the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program awarded in February 2008.
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Falcon Heavy (Wikipedia)
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Falcon Heavy is a super heavy-lift launch vehicle with partial reusability that can carry cargo into Earth orbit and beyond.
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Vulcan Centaur (Wikipedia)
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Vulcan Centaur is a heavy-lift launch vehicle developed and operated by United Launch Alliance (ULA).
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New Glenn (Wikipedia)
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New Glenn is a family of two-stage partially reusable launch vehicles developed and operated by the American company Blue Origin.
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Terran R (Wikipedia)
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Terran R is a heavy-lift two-stage, partially reusable launch vehicle under development by Relativity Space.
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Firefly Alpha (Wikipedia)
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Firefly Alpha (Firefly α) is a two-stage orbital expendable small lift launch vehicle developed by the American company Firefly Aerospace to compete in the commercial small satellite launch market.
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LauncherOne (Wikipedia)
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LauncherOne was a two-stage orbital launch vehicle developed and flown by Virgin Orbit that had operational flights from 2021 to 2023, after being in development from 2007 to 2020.
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