Type |
Country |
Class |
Role |
Date |
Status |
No. |
Notes
|
ASSET |
USA |
Rocket launch |
Experimental |
1963 |
Prototype |
|
Uncrewed reentry test vehicle.
|
Boeing X-20 Dyna-Soar |
USA |
Rocket launch |
Experimental |
1963 |
Project |
|
Crewed
|
Boeing X-37 |
USA |
Rocket launch |
Utility |
2010 |
Prototype |
|
Robotic orbiter operated by the United States Armed Forces.
|
BOR-4 |
USSR |
Rocket launch |
Experimental |
1982 |
Prototype |
|
Uncrewed reentry test vehicle.
|
Buran Shuttle |
USSR |
Rocket launch |
Utility |
1988 |
Prototype |
|
Crewed orbiter, launched by the Energia rocket. Only one robotic flight was made.
|
Dawn Aerospace Mk.2 |
The Netherlands / New Zealand |
Suborbital rocket launch |
Experimental |
2020 |
Prototype |
|
Uncrewed suborbital space plane. Horizontal takeoff and landing.
|
Dream Chaser |
USA |
Rocket launch |
Utility |
2004 |
Project |
|
Uncrewed orbiter, originally intended as a crew vehicle. Launched by a Vulcan Centaur rocket.
|
HOTOL |
UK |
SSTO |
Utility |
1988 |
Project |
0 |
Airbreathing rocket engine.
|
Interim HOTOL |
UK |
Air launch |
Utility |
1991 |
Project |
0 |
Launched from the Antonov An-225 Mriya, the Buran air lift carrier aircraft.
|
Martin X-23 PRIME |
USA |
Rocket launch |
Experimental |
1966 |
Prototype |
|
Uncrewed atmospheric re-entry test vehicle
|
North American X-15 |
USA |
Air launch |
Experimental |
1959 |
Prototype |
3 |
Air-dropped from a Boeing B-52.
|
Sanger Silbervogel |
Germany |
Composite |
Bomber |
1944 |
Project |
0 |
Sub-orbital. Mockup and wind tunnel models only.
|
Scaled Composites SpaceShipOne |
USA |
Composite |
Transport |
2004 |
Prototype |
1 |
First civilian-funded reusable spacecraft, lifted by White Knight to about 14 km
|
Scaled Composites SpaceShipTwo |
USA |
Composite |
Transport |
2010 |
Prototype |
2 |
For Virgin Galactic commercial testing.
|
Skylon |
UK |
SSTO |
Utility |
1993 |
Project |
|
Continuation of cancelled HOTOL.
|
Space Rider |
ESA |
Lifting body |
Experimental |
2021 |
Project |
|
Robotic, orbital
|
Space Shuttle |
USA |
Rocket launch |
Utility |
1981 |
Retired |
4–8 |
Crewed orbiter.
|
XCOR Lynx (formerly Xerus) |
USA |
Suborbital |
Experimental |
2008 |
Project |
0 |
Horizontal takeoff and landing.
|