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Ares I
110.6m
Human (1.8m)
1.8m
Ares I / Credits: Wikipedia (Wikimedia Commons)
United StatesRetired2009–present
Ares I
NASA / Orbital ATK
NASA's crewed launcher design for Constellation — cancelled before operational flights.
Ares I was a heavy-lift launch vehicle designed for crewed Orion missions. The program was cancelled in 2010 before crewed flights, but one test flight occurred in 2009.
Fun facts
Only flew once in uncrewed test before the program was cancelled.
Height
110.6 m
Diameter
3.71 m
Mass
1,286 t
Stages
2
Thrust
6,607 kN
Payload LEO
23,500 kg
Payload GTO
—
Total flights
1
Success rate100.0%
1 success0 failure
No upcoming launches scheduled.
