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Rocket file · LV-62

SPARK

Sandia National Laboratories · RETIRED

SPARK is an expendable launch vehicle built by Sandia National Laboratories. It first flew on 4 November 2015. It has flown 1 times with 0 successes, a success rate of 0.0%. It has nothing on the Launch Library 2 schedule right now.

Specification

Vehicle spec sheet

ON FILE
HeightNOT ON FILE
DiameterNOT ON FILE
Payload to LEONOT ON FILE
Payload to GTONOT ON FILE
Maiden flight4 November 2015
ReusableNo, expendable
Launch costNOT ON FILE
StatusRETIRED

As listed by Launch Library 2. The cost is Launch Library’s figure, not a quoted price. Figures for rockets outside the sixty most-flown were last read on 2026-11-05.

Flight record

Reliability

ON RECORD
Total flights1
Successful0
Failed1
Success rate0.0%
Landing attempts0
Landing successN/A
Scheduled0

Upcoming flights

Manifest

EMPTY

SPARK is retired, and no flight is filed.

All upcoming launches

From NASA's public image library and Wikimedia Commons. Each photo shows the credit its licence asks for and links back to where it came from.

First Imaging of Laser-Induced Spark on Mars
First Imaging of Laser-Induced Spark on MarsNASA / JPL · public domainNASA ↗
Smoke Blankets Northern California
Smoke Blankets Northern CaliforniaNASA / JPL · public domainNASA ↗
Curiosity First Rock Star, Up-Close
Curiosity First Rock Star, Up-CloseNASA / JPL · public domainNASA ↗

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Common questions

How many times has SPARK flown?
1 times, with 0 successes and 1 failures.
What is SPARK's success rate?
0.0%. That's 0 successful flights out of 1 attempts.
How much can SPARK lift to orbit?
Launch Library 2 doesn't list a payload figure for SPARK.
Is SPARK reusable?
No. Launch Library 2 lists SPARK as expendable, so no stage is recovered to fly again.