Launch service provider

A Launch service provider (LSP) is a type of company which specialises in launching spacecraft. It is responsible for the ordering, conversion, or construction of the carrier rocket, assembly and stacking, payload integration, and ultimately conducting the launch itself. Some of these tasks may be delegated or sub-contracted to other companies. For example, the United Launch Alliance subcontracts the production of GEM solid rocket motors for its Delta II and Delta IV rockets to Alliant Techsystems.^[1] An LSP does not necessarily build all the rockets it launches.

In some cases, an LSP is not required to launch a rocket. Government organizations such as the military and defense forces may conduct the launch themselves.

List of active launch service providers

References

↑ "2016 OA Motor Catalog" (PDF). OrbitalATK.com. 5 April 2016. Retrieved 3 November 2017.

Orbital launch systems
List of orbital launch systems Comparison of orbital launch systems
Current	Angara A5 Antares 230 Ariane 5 Atlas V Delta IV IV Heavy Electron Epsilon Falcon 9 "Full Thrust" Block 5 Falcon Heavy GSLV Mk II Mk III H-IIA H-IIB Kuaizhou 1 1A Long March 2C 2D 2F 3A 3B/E 3C 4B 4C 5 6 7 11 Minotaur I IV V C Pegasus Proton-M PSLV Rokot Safir Shavit Simorgh Soyuz-FG Soyuz-2 2.1a / STA 2.1b / STB 2-1v SS-520 Unha Vega Zenit 3SL 3SLB 3F
In development	Angara 1.2 A5P Antares 230+ Ariane 6 Arion 2 BFR Bloostar Chetak Cyclone-4M Eris Firefly Alpha Beta H3 Haas 2CA i-Space Hyperbola-1 3 KSLV-2 (Naro-2) Kuaizhou 11 21 31 LandSpace Zhuque-1 2 LauncherOne Long March 8 9 New Glenn New Line 1 OmegA OneSpace OS-M1, M2, M4 Orbex Prime Proton Light Medium SLS Soyuz-5 Soyuz-7 SSLV Vector-R Vector-H Vega C Vega E Vulcan Zero
Retired	Antares 110/120/130 Ariane 1 2 3 4 ASLV Athena I II Atlas B D E/F G H I II III LV-3B SLV-3 Able Agena Centaur Black Arrow Conestoga Delta A B C D E G J L M N 0100 1000 2000 3000 4000 5000 II III Diamant Dnepr Energia Europa Falcon 1 Falcon 9 v1.0 v1.1 v1.2 "Full Thrust" Feng Bao 1 GSLV Mk I H-I H-II Juno I Juno II Kaituozhe-1 Kosmos 1 2I 3 3M Lambda 4S Long March 1 1D^† 2A 2E 3 3B 4A Mu 4S 3C 3H 3S 3SII V N1^† N-I N-II Naro-1 Paektusan Pilot^† Proton UR-500 K R-7 Luna Molniya M L Polyot Soyuz original L M U U2 Soyuz/Vostok Sputnik Voskhod Vostok L K 2 2M R-29 Shtil' Volna Saturn I IB V Scout SLV Space Shuttle SPARK^† Sparta Start-1 Strela Thor Able Ablestar Agena Burner Delta DSV-2U Thorad-Agena Titan II GLV IIIA IIIB IIIC IIID IIIE 34D 23G CT-3 IV Tsyklon 2 3 4 Vanguard VLS-1^† Zenit 2 2M
Symbol ^† indicates projects terminated before a successful orbital launch

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