Editing Solid-propellant rocket (section)

===Orbital rockets===
Solid rockets are suitable for launching small payloads to orbital velocities, especially if three or more stages are used. Many of these are based on repurposed ICBMs.
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* [[Scout (rocket family)|Scout]]
* [[Athena (rocket family)|Athena]]
* [[Mu (rocket family)|Mu]]
* [[Pegasus (rocket)|Pegasus]]
* [[Taurus (rocket)|Taurus]]
* [[Minotaur (rocket family)|Minotaur]]
* [[Start-1]]
* [[PSLV]] - alternating solid and liquid stages
* [[Small Satellite Launch Vehicle|SSLV]] - all lower 3 stages are solid stages
* [[Solid Fuel Ducted Ramjet|SFDR]]
* [[Shavit 2|Shavit]]
* [[Vega (rocket)|Vega]]
* [[Long March 11]]
* [[Omega (rocket)|OmegA]] (project was cancelled in 2020, rocket unflown)
* [[Qaem 100]]
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Larger liquid-fueled orbital rockets often use solid rocket boosters to gain enough initial thrust to launch the fully fueled rocket.
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* [[Delta II]]
* [[Titan IV]]
* [[Space Shuttle]]
* [[Space Launch System]]
* [[Ariane 5]]
* [[Atlas II]]
* [[Atlas V]] (optionally 1-5 boosters)
* [[Delta IV]] (optionally 2 or 4 boosters)
* [[H-IIA]], [[H-IIB]]
* [[Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle|PSLV]] - optional solid boosters to lift heavier payloads
* [[Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mk III|GSLV Mk III]]{{colend}}
Solid fuel is also used for some upper stages, particularly the [[Star 37]] (sometimes referred to as the "Burner" upper stage) and the [[Star 48]] (sometimes referred to as the "[[Payload Assist Module]]", or PAM), both manufactured originally by [[Thiokol]], and today by [[Northrop Grumman]]. They are used to lift large payloads to intended orbits (such as the [[Global Positioning System]] satellites), or smaller payloads to interplanetary—or even interstellar—trajectories. Another solid-fuel upper stage, used by the [[Space Shuttle]] and the [[Titan IV]], was the [[Boeing]]-manufactured [[Inertial Upper Stage]] (IUS).
* ''[[Pioneer 10]]'' and ''[[Pioneer 11]]'' were both sent out of the [[Solar System]] by Star 37E upper stages from [[Atlas-Centaur]] rockets.
* ''[[Voyager 1]]'' and ''[[Voyager 2]]'' were both sent out of the Solar System by Star 37E upper stages from [[Titan IIIE]] rockets.
* ''[[Magellan (spacecraft)|Magellan]]'' was sent to Venus on an IUS after being deployed from [[Space Shuttle Atlantis|Space Shuttle ''Atlantis'']] on [[STS-30]].
* ''[[Galileo (spacecraft)|Galileo]]'' was sent to Jupiter on an IUS after being deployed from [[Space Shuttle Atlantis|Space Shuttle ''Atlantis'']] on [[STS-34]].
* ''[[Ulysses (spacecraft)|Ulysses]]'' was sent to Jupiter on an IUS and a Star 48 PAM after being deployed from [[Space Shuttle Discovery|Space Shuttle ''Discovery'']] on [[STS-41]]. It then was placed in a polar orbit around the Sun following a [[gravity assist]] around Jupiter.
* ''[[New Horizons]]'' was sent out of the Solar System on a Star 48 PAM from an [[Atlas V]] rocket.

Some rockets, like the [[Antares (rocket)|Antares]] (manufactured by Northrop Grumman), have mandatory solid-fuel upper stages. The Antares rocket uses the [[Northrop Grumman]]-manufactured [[Castor (rocket stage)|Castor 30]] as an upper stage.