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Global Spacecraft & Mission Vehicle

Category	Representative Systems	Main Hardware Components	Main Software / Control Systems	Primary Functions
Reusable Launch Vehicles (RLV)	SpaceX Falcon 9 / Falcon Heavy / Starship, Blue Origin New Glenn, CNSA Long March 9 (under dev.)	1st & 2nd stages, LOX–fuel tanks, Raptor/Merlin engines, grid fins, landing legs	Flight computer (FalconCore), guidance & navigation (GNC), real-time telemetry stack	Lift payloads from Earth to orbit; re-entry & reuse
Expendable Launch Vehicles (ELV)	Ariane 6, ULA Vulcan, Rocket Lab Electron, JAXA H3	Multi-stage rocket bodies, solid/liquid boosters, fairing, avionics bay	On-board guidance SW, telemetry bus, stage-separation logic	One-time orbital delivery of satellites / probes
Crewed Spacecraft / Capsules	Crew Dragon (SpaceX), Orion (NASA), Shenzhou (CNSA)	Pressurized capsule, docking adapter, life-support ECLSS, heat shield, parachutes	Flight management SW, docking autopilot, life-support control	Transport astronauts to LEO / Moon / ISS
Cargo Spacecraft	Dragon Cargo, Cygnus (Northrop), Tianzhou (CNSA)	Uncrewed capsule, pressurized module, solar arrays, propulsion unit	Autonomous rendezvous / docking SW, power management system	Deliver supplies / experiments to space stations
Space Station Modules	ISS, Tiangong, Gateway (ESA/NASA)	Pressurized habitat modules, truss structure, solar arrays, radiators, robotic arms	Environmental control SW, robotic manipulation SW (Canadarm), telemetry network	Long-term habitation and experiments
Lunar / Planetary Landers	Perseverance Rover, Chang’e Lander, Vikram (India)	Descent stage, landing legs, radar altimeter, cameras, drills, sample arm	Terrain-relative navigation, hazard avoidance AI, autonomous descent logic	Soft-land and operate on planetary surface
Rovers (Surface Mobiles)	Curiosity, Perseverance, Yutu, Rosalind Franklin	Mobility chassis, wheels/tracks, robotic arm, camera mast, instruments	Autonomous navigation stack (Vision / SLAM / Path Planning), tele-ops SW	Surface exploration and sampling
Orbiters / Probes	Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, JUICE (ESA), Chandrayaan-2 Orbiter	Bus structure, high-gain antenna, solar arrays, sensors, propulsion	Attitude & orbit control (AOCS), data compression & transmission SW	Long-term observation of planets / moons
Space Telescopes	Hubble, JWST, Euclid, Roman Space Telescope	Optical assembly, mirrors, cryocoolers, detectors, attitude control	Fine guidance system, pointing SW, image processing pipeline	Deep-space astronomy and imaging
Satellite Constellations	Starlink, OneWeb, Galileo, BeiDou	Small satellite bus, phased-array antenna, electric thrusters	Network routing SW, autonomous collision avoidance, fleet control	Global communications / navigation
Small Sats / CubeSats	Planet Labs Dove, ETH CHESS, NASA MarCO	Cube bus (1U-12U), solar panels, radio transceiver, micro thruster	Open-source flight SW (FreeRTOS, COSMOS), attitude control algorithms	Low-cost Earth observation & tech demo
Deep Space Probes	Voyager, New Horizons, OSIRIS-REx, Hayabusa 2	RTG power unit, high-gain antenna, science payload, propulsion	Long-range communication protocols, autonomous fault recovery SW	Interplanetary exploration / sample return
Space Tugs / Transfer Vehicles	Momentus Vigoride, Northrop MEV	Propulsion module (ion or chemical), docking adapter, avionics	Rendezvous SW, orbit optimization planner	Move satellites between orbits / extend lifetimes
Upper Stages / Kick Stages	Falcon Upper Stage, Rocket Lab Photon	Engine + propellant tank, avionics pod, payload adapter	Burn sequence SW, guidance loop	Final orbit insertion / payload deployment
Re-entry / Heat Protection Subsystems	Dragon PICA-X shield, Orion AVCOAT	Ablative material, heat sensors, ceramic tiles	Thermal simulation SW, event-trigger controller	Protect vehicle during atmospheric re-entry
Avionics / Flight Computers	SpaceX F9 FCC, ESA OBDH, NASA RAD750	Radiation-hardened CPU, power bus, sensors I/O	Real-time OS (VxWorks, RTEMS), fault-tolerant control	Central brain for vehicle operations
Ground Segment Systems	SpaceX Mission Control, ESA ESOC, NASA JPL DSN	Ground antennas, tracking stations, server clusters	Mission control SW, telemetry database, visualization tools	Command uplink / data downlink / mission monitoring

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