Four vehicles.
One mission: making life multiplanetary.
From the workhorse that made rocket reuse routine, to the stainless-steel giant built for Mars — this is a precise, specification-first look at every vehicle SpaceX currently flies.
Two rockets, one spacecraft, and the vehicle built to replace them all
Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy are launch vehicles — they get things off the ground. Dragon is a spacecraft that rides on top of Falcon 9, carrying cargo and crew. Starship is both at once: a fully reusable launch system designed to eventually do everything the other three do, at a much larger scale.
Falcon 9
The world's first orbital-class reusable rocket.
Falcon Heavy
Three Falcon 9 cores strapped together into the heaviest lift SpaceX flies.
Dragon
The spacecraft that returned human spaceflight to American soil.
Starship
A fully reusable super heavy-lift system built to carry humanity to the Moon and Mars.
Key moments across the fleet
A condensed timeline of the milestones that defined each vehicle — from first orbit to first catch.
- 2010
Falcon 9 reaches orbit
SpaceX's first orbital-class rocket succeeds on its maiden flight, and Dragon becomes the first commercial spacecraft recovered from orbit the same year.
- 2015
First orbital-class landing
A Falcon 9 booster lands upright at Landing Zone 1
- 2018
Falcon Heavy debuts
The world's most powerful operational rocket launches, landing two boosters simultaneously and sending a car toward the asteroid belt.
- 2020
Crew Dragon carries astronauts
Demo-2 returns crewed orbital spaceflight to American soil for the first time since the Shuttle retired in 2011.
- 2023
Starship's first integrated flight
Super Heavy and Starship fly together for the first time as a fully stacked vehicle.
- 2026
Starship enters Block 3
A taller, more powerful Starship — 124 meters tall on Raptor 3 engines — begins flight testing, while Falcon 9's most-flown booster passes 36 flights.
See how they stack up
Height, thrust, payload, and reusability — every vehicle compared on one page.