Comparison of solid-fuelled orbital launch systems
This article contains the lift launch systems constructed by some solid fuel stages except the final stage.
All stages solid fueled
| Vehicle | Stage number | Origin | Manufacturer | Height | Diameter | Weight | Mass to LEO | Mass to Other Orbit | Maiden flight | Retired | Record | Status |
| ASLV | 5 | ISRO | 24 | 1 | 41 | 150 | 1987 | 1994 | 2/4 | |||
| Epsilon | 3 | IHI AeroSpace | 24.4 | 2.6 | 90.8 | 2016 | - | 1/1 | ||||
| J-I | 2 | NASDA / ISAS | 33.1 | 1.8 | 88.5 | 1000 | 1996 | 1996 | 1/1* | |||
| Kaituozhe-1 | 4 | CASIC | 13.6 | 1.4 | SSO: 50 | 2002 | ? | 0/2 | ||||
| Kaituozhe-2 | CASIC | 2017 | 1/1 | |||||||||
| Kuaizhou-11 | 4 | CASIC | ? | 2.2 | 78 | 1500 | SSO: 1000@700 km | 2017 | - | - | ||
| L-4S | 4 | Tokyo univ. | 16.5 | 0.735 | 9.4 | 26 | 1966 | 1970 | 1/5 | |||
| Minotaur I | 4 | Orbital Sciences | 19.2 | 1.67 | 36.2 | 580 | SSO: 331 | 2000 | - | 11/11 | ||
| Minotaur IV Lite | 3 | Orbital Sciences | 23.88 | 2.34 | 86.3 | - | 2010 | - | 2/2* | |||
| Minotaur IV | 4 | Orbital Sciences | 23.88 | 2.34 | 86.3 | 1735 | 2010 | - | 1/1 | |||
| Minotaur IV+ | 4 | Orbital Sciences | 23.88 | 2.34 | 86.3 | 1985 | 2011 | 1/1 | ||||
| Minotaur IV/Orion 38 | 4 | Orbital Sciences | 2017 | - | 1/1 | |||||||
| Minotaur V | 5 | Orbital Sciences | 1.67 | GTO:640 TLI:447 | 2013 | - | 1/1 | |||||
| M-3C | 3 | Tokyo univ. | 20.2 | 1.41 | 41.8 | 195 | 1974 | 1979 | 3/4 | |||
| M-3H | 3 | Tokyo univ. | 23.8 | 1.41 | 48.7 | 300 | 1977 | 1978 | 3/3 | |||
| M-3S | 3 | Tokyo univ. | 23.8 | 1.41 | 48.7 | 300 | 1980 | 1984 | 4/4 | |||
| M-3SII | 3 | ISAS | 27.8 | 1.41 | 61 | 770 | 1985 | 1995 | 7/8 | |||
| M-4S | 4 | Tokyo univ. | 23.6 | 1.41 | 43.6 | 180 | 1970 | 1972 | 3/4 | |||
| M-V | 3 | ISAS | 30.8 | 2.5 | 140 | 1850 | Interplanetary: 500 | 1997 | 2006 | 6/7 | ||
| Pegasus | 3 | Orbital Sciences | 16.9 | 1.27 | 18.5 | 375 | 1990 | 10/11 | ||||
| Pegasus XL | 3 | Orbital Sciences | 17.6 | 1.27 | 23.13 | 443 | 1994 | - | 29/32 | |||
| Qaem 100 | 3 | IRGC | 80 | 2022 | - | 2/3 | ||||||
| Scout | 4 | NACA | 23 | 1.01 | 21.5 | 1961 | 1994 | |||||
| Scout-A | 4 | NACA | 25 | 1.01 | 17.85 | 1965 | 1970 | |||||
| Shavit | 3 | IAI | 15.3 | 1.352 | 23.2 | 160 | 1988 | 1990 | 2/2 | |||
| Shavit1 | 3 | IAI | 17.2 | 1.352 | 27.3 | 240 | 1995 | 2004 | 2/4 | |||
| Shavit2 | 3 | IAI | 19.5 | 1.352 | 31.2 | 350 | 2007 | - | 4/4 | |||
| SLV | 4 | ISRO | 22 | 1 | 17 | 40 | 1979 | 1983 | 3/4 | |||
| RPS-420 | 4 | LAPAN | 9.5 | 0.42 | 50 | - | 0/0 | |||||
| SPARK | 3 | Hawaii, Sandia, Aerojet Rocketdyne | SSO: 250 | 2015 | - | 0/1 | ||||||
| SS-520 | 3 | ISAS/JAXA | 9.54 | 0.52 | 2.6 | 4 | - | 2017 | - | 1/2 | ||
| Start-1 | 4 | MIT | 22.7 | 1.61 | 47.2 | 532 | SSO: 167 | 1993 | - | 6/6 | ||
| Taiwan SLV | 4 | NSPO | 50 | - | - | 0/0 | ||||||
| Taurus | 3+1 | Orbital Sciences | 27 | 2.35 | 69 | 1259 | SSO: 889 | 1994 | - | 5/6 | ||
| Taurus XL Minotaur-C | 3+1 | Orbital Sciences | 32 | 2.35 | 77 | 1458 | SSO: 1054 | 2004 | - | 2/4 | ||
| VLS-1 | 4 | AEB, DCTA-IAE, Avibrás | 19.5 | 1.01 | 50.7 | 380 | 1997 | 2016 | 0/3 | |||
| VLM-1 | 3 | / Germanypartial|Development |