Rockets: Who Supplies Every Launch Vehicle
The rocket launch supply chain from propellant to mission: engines (SpaceX Merlin and Raptor, Blue Origin BE-4, L3Harris RL10, Rocket Lab Rutherford, Russia's RD-180, ArianeGroup Vulcain), structures, solid boosters (Northrop, Avio), fairings (Beyond Gravity), and the vehicles they build — Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy, Starship, Electron, Neutron, Atlas V, Vulcan Centaur, New Glenn, Ariane 6, SLS, H3, Long March 5. Shared suppliers like BE-4 (Vulcan and New Glenn) light up across the fleet.
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Featured in this map
- ① Materials & propellants
- ② Engines
- ③ Structures & subsystems
- ④ Launch vehicles
- ⑤ Missions
- Carbon-fiber composite
- Aluminum-lithium alloy
- 304L stainless steel
- Superalloys (Inconel etc.)
- RP-1 kerosene (kerolox)
- Liquid methane (methalox)
- Liquid hydrogen (LH2)
- Liquid oxygen (LOX)
- Solid propellant (APCP/HTPB)
- Merlin (kerolox)
- Raptor (methalox, full-flow)
- BE-4 (methalox)
- BE-3U (LH2 upper)
- RL10 (LH2 upper)
- RS-25 (LH2 core)
- RD-180 (kerolox)
- Rutherford (electric-pump)
- Archimedes (methalox)
- Vulcain 2.1 / Vinci (LH2)
- LE-9 / LE-5B (LH2)
- Aeon R (methalox, 3D-printed)
- Reaver / Lightning (kerolox)
- YF-100 / YF-77 (CASC)
- Carbon-composite airframe
- Metal tanks & stages
- Solid rocket boosters (GEM / SLS)
- Solid boosters (P120C)
- Solid boosters (SRB-3)
- Payload fairings
- Avionics & flight GNC
- Electron
- Alpha
- Neutron (dev)
- Atlas V (retiring)
- Vulcan Centaur
- Falcon 9
- Falcon Heavy
- Long March 5
- H3
- Ariane 6
- Terran R (dev)
- New Glenn
- SLS (Block 1)
- Starship
- Satellite constellations
- Crew & cargo to ISS
- National-security launch
- Commercial comsats (GTO)
- Smallsat & rideshare
- Moon / Artemis
- Mars & deep space
- Toray
- Hexcel
- Mitsubishi Chem
- Arconic
- Constellium
- Alcoa
- Howmet
- ATI
- Carpenter
- Air Liquide
- Linde
- Air Products
- Northrop
- Avio
- SpaceX
- Blue Origin
- L3Harris (Aerojet)
- NPO Energomash
- Rocket Lab
- ArianeGroup
- Airbus
- Safran
- Mitsubishi Heavy
- Relativity Space
- Firefly Aerospace
- CASC (state)
- Firefly
- Relativity
- ULA
- Boeing (SLS core)
- Northrop Grumman
- IHI Aerospace
- Beyond Gravity (RUAG)
- Moog
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