List of missile types

This list is structured according to countries, they are not arranged alphabetically or geographically.

Mail rockets are included, but model kits in general are not.

See also: Overview of today's launch vehicles

United States

Sounding rockets

• Aerobee
• Arcas , Boosted Arcas
• Astrobee
• Athena H
• Blue Scout Junior
• Bumper
• Castor 4B
• Castor Orbus
• Loki , super Loki
• Javelin
• Max
• Nike (rocket) , Nike Apache , Nike Hydac , Nike Iroquois , Nike Javelin , Nike Malemute , Nike Nike , Nike Orion , Nike Recruit , Nike T40 T55 , Nike Tomahawk , Nike Viper I , Nike Asp , Nike Cajun , Nike Deacon , Nike Hawk
• Orion
• Prospector
• Little Joe
• Sidewinder-Arcas , Sidewinder-Raven
• Starbird
• Strypi
• tomahawk
• Viking
• WAC Corporal

Tourist missiles

• New Shepard

Non-military launch vehicles

• Antares (formerly Taurus II)
• Athena
• Atlas
• Atlas V
• Booster of Space Shuttle
• Conestoga
• delta
• Delta II
• Delta IV
• Falcon 1
• Falcon 9
• Falcon Heavy
• Juno I
• Juno II
• Minotaur
• Pegasus
• Pilot (NOTSnik)
• Redstone also Juno-1
• Saturn
• Scout
• Taurus
• Thor
• titanium
• Vanguard

Rocket stages used in different combinations

• Agena
• Castor
• Centaur
• Inertial Upper Stage (IUS)
• Payload Assist Module (PAM)

Military missiles

• Atlas
• Bull Goose
• Honest John
• Jupiter
• Lance
• Little John
• Martin Mace , matador
• Minuteman
• Navaho
• Nike , Nike Hercules , Nike-Zeus
• patriot
• Peacekeeper
• Pershing II
• Ping pong missile
• Polaris
• Poseidon
• sergeant
• Thor
• Trident

Non-reusable launch vehicle projects

• Ares
• Falcon 5
• Firefly Alpha
• Firefly Beta
• LauncherOne
• Liberty
• omega
• Rocket
• RS1
• Sea Dragon
• Space Launch System (SLS)
• Spectrum
• Great strypi
• Terran 1
• Vulcan - possibly reusable engines in a later version

Projects of (partially) reusable carrier systems

• Delta Clipper
• Kistler K-1
• New Glenn
• Roton (rocket)
• Starship - Super Heavy (BFR)
• Venture Star
• XS-1

Soviet Union (now Russia and Ukraine )

Sounding rockets

• M-100
• MMR06
• MR-12
• MR-20

Non-military launch vehicles

• R-7 (also Sputnik)
  • Wostok (also Luna)
  • Vozhod
  • Molnija
  • Soyuz
  • Soyuz frigate
• N1
• cyclone
• Zenith
• Zenith 3
• cosmos
• Rockot
• Dnepr
• proton
• Energija (boosters are reusable)
• Schtil
• begin
• Strela
• Volna
• Proton K
• Proton M
• Angara A5

Rocket stages used in different combinations

• Bris
• Fregat
• Ikar
• Block D
• Taimyr
• Jastreb
• Korvet

Projects

• Switjas (rocket) also " Poljot (rocket) " or "Wosduschny Start"
• Angara
• Mayak (rocket)
• Rickshaw (rocket)
• Further developments of the R-7
  • Rus
  • Jamal
  • Geos (rocket)
  • Aurora
  • Onega
• Kwant (missile) and Kwant-1
• Burlak (rocket)
• Rif (rocket)
• Wysota
• S-25 Berkut
• Urengoy (rocket)
• Priboi (rocket)
• Soyuz-5

Reusable carrier systems projects

• Baikal booster
• Buran ( space shuttle )
• Oryol ( rocket ) Working name for an at least partially reusable launch system
• Spiral ( rocket )

Military missiles

NATO code name Surface-to-Surface (Boden-Boden) SS, with suffix -N for sea-based and "S" code designation otherwise Russian designations R

• R-1 (missile)
• SS-1 "Scunner" and " Scud "
• SS-2 Sibling
• SS-3 Shyster
• SS-4 "Sandal" or R-12
• SS-5 "Skean" or R-14
• SS-6 "Sapwood" corresponds to R-7
• SS-7 Saddler
• SS-8 "Sasin" or R-9
• SS-9 Scarp or R-36
• SS-10 "Scrag"
• SS-11 Sego
• SS-12 scaleboard
• SS-13 Savage
• SS-14 "Scapegoat" and "Scamp" or RT-15
• SS-15 "Scrooge" or RT-20P
• SS-16 "Sinner"
• SS-17 "Spanker"
• SS-18 "Satan"
• SS-19 "Stiletto"
• SS-20 "Saber"
• SS-21 "Scarab"
• SS-22 (none)
• SS-23 "Spider"
• SS-24 "Scalpel" or RT-23
• SS-25 "Sickle" or "Topol" or RS-12M
• SS-27 ( Topol-M )
• SS-N-1 "Scrubber" or P-1
• SS-N-2 "Styx" or 4K40 / 4K51
• SS-N-4 "Sark" or R-13
• SS-N-8 "Sawfly" or R-29
• SS-N-6 "Serb" or R-27
• SS-N-15 "Starfish" or 82R
• SS-N-16 "Stallion" or 86R / 88R
• SS-N-18 "Stingray" or R-29
• SS-N-19 "Shipwreck" or P-700 "Granit"
• SS-N-20 "Sturgeon" or R-39
• SS-N-22 "Sunburn" or P-270 "Moskit"
• SS-N-23 "Skiff" or R-29 or RSM-54 "Sinewa"
• SS-N-26 "Strobile" or P-800 "Bolid"

Europe (community developments)

Non-military launch vehicles

• Europe
• Ariane 1
• Ariane 2
• Ariane 3
• Ariane 4
• Ariane 5
• Vega

Projects

• Ariane 6
• Enterprise small missile
• Vega C

Reusable carrier systems projects

• Phoenix (space glider)
• Hopper (space glider)
• Singer

Germany until 1945

Military missiles

• A4 (V2)
• gentian
• Fieseler Fi 103 (V1)
• Henschel Hs 117 (butterfly)
• Rhine messenger
• Rhine daughter
• waterfall

Experimental missiles

• Mirak

Manned missiles

• Bachem Ba 349 (Germany 1944 / 1945 )
• Reichenberg device (Germany 1944 )

Federal Republic of Germany

Sounding rockets

• Cirrus
• cumulus
• Rockets from Ernst Mohr
• Rocket from Berthold Seliger Research and Development Company

Non-military launch vehicles

• OTRAG

Projects

• Singer I & II , reusable carrier system
• Spectrum

Experimental missiles

• GM-12
• Zephyr (rocket)

Military missiles

• XC-34
• XC-35
• CM-12

Mail rockets

• Mail rockets by Gerhard Zucker (1933, 1970s)

Austria

Mail rockets

• V (experimental rocket) by Friedrich Schmiedl
• various model rockets (1992 and 2002)

Great Britain

Sounding rockets

• leopard
• skua
• Petrel
• Rook
• Skylark
• Black Knight
• jaguar
• Fulmar
• Falstaff

Non-military launch vehicles

• Black Arrow

Military missiles

• Blue streak

Projects of (partially) reusable carrier systems

• HOTOL
• Prime

Mail rockets

• Mail rocket (s) by Gerhard Zucker (emigrated, Sussex, after 1934)

France

Sounding rockets

• Aigle
• Agate
• Antares
• Belier
• Berenice
• Centaurs
• Cora
• Daniel
• dauphin
• Dragon
• Émeraude
• Eridan
• Monica
• Rubis
• Tacite
• Tibere
• Titus
• Topaze
• VE 231 sapphire
• Véronique

Non-military launch vehicles

• diamond

Military missiles

• Hades
• Pluton
• Aster (Aster 15, Aster 30)
• SSBS S1
• M 1 MSBS ( mer-sol balistique stratégique )
• M 2 MSBS
• M 20 MSBS
• M 4 MSBS
• M 45 MSBS
• M 5 MSBS (only planned)
• M 51 MSBS

Italy

Sounding rockets

• Alfa (rocket)
• Sispre

Spain

Sounding rockets

• INTA-255
• INTA-300

Projects

• Miura 1 - fully reusable sounding rocket
• Miura 5 - partially reusable launcher

Poland

Sounding rockets

• meteor

Romania

Projects

• Haas

Sweden

Military missiles

• RBS 15 Mk3 anti-ship missile

Switzerland

Sounding rockets

• Zenith

Israel

Non-military launch vehicles

• Shavit

China

Sounding rockets

• T-7
• Zhinü
• OS-X

Non-military launch vehicles

• Chang Zheng (Long March) - collective name
  • CZ-1 - light carrier
  • CZ-2 - medium two-stage launcher (also manned)
  • CZ-3 - launch vehicle for GTO trains
  • CZ-4
  • CZ-5
  • CZ-6
  • CZ-7
  • CZ-11
• Feng Bao 1 (FB-1)
• Hyperbola-1 (Shian Quxian-1, SQX-1)
• Jielong-1
• Kaituozhe-1 (KT-1)
• Kaituozhe-2 (KT-2)
• Kuaizhou -1

Launcher projects

• Hyperbola-2 (Shian Quxian-2, SQX-2)
• CZ-8
• CZ-9
• Kuaizhou -11
• Newline-1
• OS-M
• Tenglong
• Zhuque 1
• Zhuque-2

North Korea

Military missiles

• Taepodong-1
• Taepodong-2

Non-military launch vehicles

• Unha-3

South Korea

Sounding rockets

• KSR

Non-military launch vehicles

• KSLV

Japan

Sounding rockets

• S-160
• S-210
• S-310
• S-520
• Kappa (rocket) also J

Non-military launch vehicles

• epsilon
• HI
• H-II
• Lambda or L
• My - series also Mu or M
• N series
• SS-520

Projects

• GX
• H3
• JI
• zero

India

Sounding rockets

• RH (RH-75, RH-125, RH-200, RH-300, RH-560)

Non-military launch vehicles

• SLV
• ASLV
• PSLV
• GSLV
• GSLV Mk III (LVM3)

Military missiles

• Agni - medium-range missile
• Surya - long-range missile

Missile projects (civil and military)

• Akash
• Nag
• Prithvi
• SSLV
• Trishuf
• Vikram

Pakistan

Satellite missiles

• Hatf V (Ghauri)

Military missiles

• Shaheen I
• Shaheen II
• Shaheen III
• Ghauri
  • Ghauri I
  • Ghauri II
  • Ghauri III
• Babur
• Ghazani
• Hatf-II Abdali
• Hatf VI
• Hatf VII Babur
• Hatf VIII or Ra'ad

Argentina

Sounding rockets

• Canopus
• Castor (A)
• Condor
• Orion
• Rigel
• Tronador

Brazil

Sounding rockets

• Sonda 4
• VSB-30
• VS-40
• VSV-30

Projects

• VLS-1

Iran

Military missiles

• Shahab 3

Non-military launch vehicles

• Ghased
• Safir
• Simorgh

Australia

Projects

• Ariel - sounding rocket
• Eris launcher

New Zealand

Sounding rockets

• Ātea

Non-military launch vehicles

• Electron

Web links

• designation-systems.net - rocket names (English)
• Launch Vehicles on Gunter's Space Page
• Norbert Bruges: Space Launch Vehicles (English)