VECTOR heavy-lift vehicle on the pad at night

Mission 47 · T-00:00:00

Making orbit ordinary.

Vehicle V-Heavy Block 5
Pad LC-39A · Florida
Payload Constellation-12
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Polaris Transit
completed.

Vector engines at full throttle during ascent

Flight V-047 · 14 Jul 2026

Three-core ascent. Soft catch. Same-day pad recovery.

Booster B1078 returned to the offshore platform after 214 seconds of powered flight. Side boosters recovered on dual droneships. Fairing halves retrieved 680 km downrange.

Apogee
214 km
Max Q
32.1 kPa
Payload
18.4 t
Landing
RTLS
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Fleet

Built to fly.
Designed to return.

Heavy Lift

V-Heavy

Three-core architecture. 64 engines. 63.8 t to LEO. Fully reusable first stage stack.

  • Height72.4 m
  • Thrust22.8 MN
  • Flights47
Vehicle overview
Workhorse

V-9

Single-stick reliability. The backbone of constellation deployment and rideshare.

  • Height71.2 m
  • Thrust7.6 MN
  • Flights142
Vehicle overview
Crewed

Capsule C-4

Pressurized crew transport for low Earth orbit and deep-space transit staging.

  • Crew7
  • Volume11.2 m³
  • Flights23
Vehicle overview
0 Successful launches
0 Booster landings
0 Reflown boosters
0 Satellites deployed
Earth curvature from low Earth orbit

Human Spaceflight

Seven seats.
One horizon.

Capsule C-4 carries research crews, commercial astronauts, and station resupply on the same flight-proven stack that returns itself to the pad.

Mission duration Up to 210 days
Abort system Pad-to-orbit
Reentry Water recovery
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Launch Manifest

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NET 28 JUL 2026 Axion Relay-3 Communications constellation · SSO V-9 SLC-40 NET 09 AUG 2026 Crew Transit-8 Orbital laboratory rotation · LEO V-9 + C-4 LC-39A NET 22 AUG 2026 Polaris Cargo Deep-space propellant depot demo V-Heavy LC-39A NET 04 SEP 2026 Rideshare Nova 48 smallsats · multi-plane deploy V-9 SLC-4E

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