When each rocket first reached each reusability level. Hover a line for details; click for the full history.
Where every rocket stands today, grouped by the highest level it has achieved — plus a log of every level-clearing flight.
This tracker follows every orbital-class reusable rocket program in the United States and China through six reusability levels — launch attempt, launch success, recovery attempt, recovery success, booster reflight, and routine re-use. The United States holds a clear lead: SpaceX's Falcon 9 first landed a booster in December 2015 and Starship, Falcon Heavy, and Blue Origin's New Glenn have all reflown boosters. But China is catching up — six independent Chinese programs are climbing the ladder at a much faster pace than the American originals did.
Plenty — this tracker only charts vehicles that have attempted an orbital launch, so rockets still in development don't appear until they fly. Notable reusable rockets in the pipeline:
The moment any of them makes a launch attempt, it enters the chart at Level 0 and starts climbing.
Yes. In July 2026, CASC's Long March 10B (CZ-10B) was caught in a sea-based net on its very first launch, making China the second nation to recover an orbital-class booster — and reaching in one flight a milestone that took Falcon 9 more than five years. Earlier recovery attempts by LandSpace's Zhuque-3 and the Long March 12A in December 2025 reached the landing phase but did not stick the landing.
The Chinese reusable rockets tracked here are LandSpace's Zhuque-3 (ZQ-3), CASC's Long March 10B, Long March 12A and Long March 12B, CAS Space's Kinetica-2, and Space Pioneer's Tianlong-3. LandSpace — often called the Chinese equivalent of SpaceX — was first to attempt an orbital booster recovery, while Long March 10B's net catch makes it the furthest along today.
It's the most common question about these programs — headlines call Chinese vehicles "Falcon 9 clones" — and the resemblance is real: vertical propulsive landing, grid fins, and Falcon 9-style architectures, plus a Long March 10B net catch in the spirit of the "Mechazilla chopsticks" tower catch that Starship's Super Heavy booster pulled off in October 2024. Supporters call it following a proven playbook, the way every nation's early rockets borrowed from the V-2 lineage; critics call it copying. Either way, the milestone dates here let you judge the gap yourself: China is roughly ten years behind Falcon 9's timeline but compressing steps that took SpaceX years into single flights.
Falcon 9 boosters have flown and landed more than 550 times since routine re-use began in 2017 — no other rocket, American or Chinese, treats recovery as the default rather than the milestone. That is Level 5 on this tracker, and Falcon 9 remains the only vehicle to reach it.
Yes — Blue Origin's New Glenn landed its booster in November 2025 and reflew one in April 2026, joining Starship and Falcon Heavy at Level 4 (booster reflight). The leading non-US vehicle is Long March 10B at Level 3 (recovery success).