Expendable launch system

ELVs typically consist of several rocket stages that are discarded sequentially as their fuel is exhausted and the vehicle gains altitude and speed.

[2] Arianespace SA is a French company founded in March 1980 as the world's first commercial launch service provider.

The role of Arianespace is to market Ariane 6 launch services, prepare missions, and manage customer relations.

Prior to the merger, ISAS used small Mu rocket family of solid-fueled launch vehicles, while NASDA developed larger liquid-fueled launchers.

[11] JAXA operated the H-IIB, an upgraded version of the H-IIA, from September 2009 to May 2020 and successfully launched the H-II Transfer Vehicle six times.

This cargo spacecraft was responsible for resupplying the Kibo Japanese Experiment Module on the International Space Station.

[12] To be able to launch smaller mission on JAXA developed a new solid-fueled rocket, the Epsilon as a replacement to the retired M-V.

In January 2017, JAXA attempted and failed to put a miniature satellite into orbit atop one of its SS520 series rockets.

The vast majority of launch vehicles for its missions, from the Redstone missile to the Delta, Atlas, Titan and Saturn rocket families, have been expendable.

The Atlas V from the 1994 Evolved ELV (EELV) program remains in active service, operated by United Launch Alliance.

According to the technical documentation presented in the annual meeting of the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs, it is a two-stage rocket with all liquid propellant engines.

[dubious – discuss] The Shavit is a space launch vehicle capable of sending payload into low Earth orbit.