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Launch Vehicles

A CodeSights flagship for the spaceflight and analytics crowd: 70 current and recent orbital launch vehicles, scraped wide from the comparison of orbital launch systems and each rocket's {{Infobox rocket}}, with every column at least a quarter populated. It carries origin country, manufacturer, function class, status, height, diameter, stage count, payload to low Earth orbit and to geostationary transfer orbit, reusability, orbital launches, first and latest flight years, and rocket family. The famous finding is that reusability is a revolution of the 2010s: all eleven reusable or partially reusable vehicles first flew in 2010 or later, led by SpaceX's Falcon 9, while the rest of the fleet is expendable. A second story is geography: China fields 26 of the 70 systems, more than the United States, India and Russia combined, the signature of its launch-vehicle boom. The heaviest lifters are the new giants, SLS Block 1 to low Earth orbit at 95 tonnes, then New Glenn and Falcon Heavy. The roster is current and recent systems, so retired vehicles like the Saturn V are out of scope. Nine acceptance tests, one enforcing the 25 percent fill rule on every column.
70 rows 1 file last pulled 2026-10-17
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_orbital_launch_systems
Vehicles 70 rows × 17 columns
VehicleVehicle_IDOriginManufacturerFunctionStatusHeight_mDiameter_mStagesPayload_LEO_kgPayload_GTO_kgReusabilityOrbital_LaunchesFirst_Flight_YearLast_Flight_YearFamilyVehicle_URL

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What is the Launch Vehicles dataset?

A CodeSights flagship for the spaceflight and analytics crowd: 70 current and recent orbital launch vehicles, scraped wide from the comparison of orbital launch systems and each rocket's {{Infobox rocket}}, with every column at least a quarter populated. It carries origin country, manufacturer, function class, status, height, diameter, stage count, payload to low Earth orbit and to geostationary transfer orbit, reusability, orbital launches, first and latest flight years, and rocket family. The famous finding is that reusability is a revolution of the 2010s: all eleven reusable or partially reusable vehicles first flew in 2010 or later, led by SpaceX's Falcon 9, while the rest of the fleet is expendable. A second story is geography: China fields 26 of the 70 systems, more than the United States, India and Russia combined, the signature of its launch-vehicle boom. The heaviest lifters are the new giants, SLS Block 1 to low Earth orbit at 95 tonnes, then New Glenn and Falcon Heavy. The roster is current and recent systems, so retired vehicles like the Saturn V are out of scope. Nine acceptance tests, one enforcing the 25 percent fill rule on every column.

How big is the Launch Vehicles dataset?

70 rows in one CSV file, with 17 columns in total: Vehicle, Vehicle_ID, Origin, Manufacturer, Function, Status, Height_m, Diameter_m, Stages, Payload_LEO_kg, Payload_GTO_kg, Reusability, Orbital_Launches, First_Flight_Year, Last_Flight_Year, Family, Vehicle_URL.

Where does the data come from?

It is built by programmatically scraping en.wikipedia.org, last pulled on 2026-10-17. Datasets are versioned; older versions stay downloadable.

Is the dataset free to download?

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Can I see the code that built this dataset?

Yes. The exact Python scraper that built it is viewable on the dataset page by any signed-in member, so every number is reproducible.

Can the data contain errors?

Automated scraping leaves room for error and the underlying sources change over time, so no version is guaranteed accurate or complete. If a number matters, verify it against the original source.

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