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Rockets: Who Supplies Every Launch Vehicle

Rockets are systems of systems. The engine is the hard part, and a few engines quietly power half the fleet.

Start at the engine, because that is what is hard to build. Merlin and Raptor (SpaceX), BE-4 (Blue Origin), RL10, Rutherford (Rocket Lab), the Russian RD-180 US rockets leaned on for years, ArianeGroup's Vulcain. Everything else builds up from there.

The links that matter are the shared ones. BE-4 powers both New Glenn and ULA's Vulcan, so one supplier's stumble grounds two programs. The map lights those overlaps across Falcon 9, Starship, Electron, Vulcan, New Glenn, Ariane 6, SLS, H3 and Long March 5.

Where a supplier trades publicly, the ticker is attached. The industrial base is the story. The rockets are the headline.

Companies & entities 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

Muad'Dib Capital, the Atlas of the Physical Economy. For information only — not investment advice. Company lists are representative selections curated from public sources.

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