List of fictional spacecraft

This is a list of fictional spacecraft, starships and exo-atmospheric vessels that have been identified by name in notable published works of fiction. The term spacecraft is mainly used to refer to spacecraft that are real or conceived using present technology. The terms spaceship and starship are generally applied only to fictional space vehicles, usually those capable of transporting people. The spaceship is one of the prime elements in science fiction. Numerous short stories and novels are built up around various ideas for spacecraft, and spacecraft have featured in many films and television series. Some hard science fiction books focus on the technical details of the craft. Some fictional spaceships have been referenced in the real world, notably Starship Enterprise from Star Trek which gave its name to Space Shuttle Enterprise and to the VSS Enterprise. For other ships from Star Wars, Star Trek, Robotech, Transformers, and other major franchises, see the separate lists linked below.

Space stations

See List of fictional space stations.

Shuttles

(Planet to orbit)

• Churchill - Lifeforce
• Daedalus - Space Cowboys
• Explorer - from the 2013 film Gravity
• Intrepid - In Payne Harrison's novel Storming Intrepid.
• Moonraker – Used in the 1979 Bond film Moonraker
• Pan Am Space Clipper (Orion III) A shuttle used to transport Dr. Heywood Floyd into space, in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey
• Ranger 3 from the 1979 TV series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
• SSTO-TAV-37B Space Shuttlecraft – Used in James Cameron’s film Avatar
• Thunderbird 3 - A SSTO (Single Stage to Orbit) used by International Rescue in the TV show Thunderbirds.
• X-71 Military Space Shuttles (Freedom and Independence) - Modified space shuttles from the film Armageddon

Lunar

• Aries Ib - Passenger lunar lander 2001: A Space Odyssey
• Eagle - Moonbase Alpha's modular service craft Space: 1999
• Friede - Moon rocket in 1929 German film Frau im Mond Woman in the Moon
• Hawk - Combat spacecraft similar to the Eagle Space: 1999
• Mayflower One - Airplane II: The Sequel
• Unnamed "projectile" in From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne (1865)

Interplanetary

• Alexei Leonov - 2010
• Anastasia - Dan Dare's personal ship
• Axiom - The starliner in the film WALL-E, was used to provide a temporary home for humanity.
• Bilkis, an experimental spaceship in the anime series Geneshaft.
• Excelsior - Himmelskibet (A Trip to Mars) - 1918 Danish science fiction film. Phil Hardy says it is "the film that marked the beginning of the space opera subgenre of science fiction."
• F-302 Mongoose - Air/space/hyperdrive strike craft Stargate SG-1
• Icarus Planet of the Apes, 1968
• Icarus I and Icarus II, spaceships from the 2007 movie Sunshine
• Lewis and Clark - Rescue ship sent to retrieve the Event Horizon
• M.A.R.S-1 - Flight to Mars from 1951. The same spaceship model was used in many other films, such as Queen of Outer Space.
• Mars I and Mars II from the 2000 film Mission to Mars
• Moya - The sentient ship with a soul from science fiction series Farscape
• Orbit Jet - United Worlds XV-2 Rocky Jones, Space Ranger, 1954 TV series
• Ryvius - the title spacecraft from the anime series Infinite Ryvius
• SA-43 Hammerhead Mk 1 - U.S.M.C. VTOL atmosphere/space fighter in 2063 Space: Above and Beyond, 1995 TV series
• Scorpio E-X-1 - It's About Time
• Serenity - An interplanetary spacecraft from the TV series Firefly and the 2005 science fiction movie Serenity
• Theseus - Blindsight
• USSC Discovery 1 (XD-1) - 2001: A Space Odyssey
• USS Cygnus from Disney’s the The Black Hole
• Valley Forge - American Airlines space freighter, outfitted with geodesic dome greenhouses preserving the last forests Silent Running
• Zero-X - Supermarionation film Thunderbirds Are Go

Interstellar

Military or exploration

• Amaterasu (天照) - the 3rd Freedom Guard Ship of the Kibi Planetary Nation (Starship Operators)
• Argonaut - the most advanced starship of the Iron Tribe in the anime series Heroic Age
• Ark - Transformers
• Basroil - a starship commanded by Lafiel in the anime series Banner of the Stars
• Basestars - The Cylon capital ships in the Battlestar Galactica universe
• Battlestar - The human battleship/carrier hybrids from the Battlestar Galactica universe, including Galactica, and Pegasus.
• Bellerophon - the ship that took colonists to Altair IV in Forbidden Planet
• C57 -D - The United Planets Cruiser that was sent to the planet Altair IV in Forbidden Planet
• Conquistador - the largest battleship of the Henrietta Planetary Alliance (Starship Operators)
• "The Derelict" - the name given to the abandoned alien spacecraft discovered by the crew of the deep space tug Nostromo in the 1979 science fiction film Alien
• Destiny Ascension - an Asari dreadnaught with a crew of 10,000 that serves as the flagship of the Citadel fleet in the Mass Effect Universe.
• EAS Agamemnon (Babylon 5)
• Endurance - Mothership in Interstellar
• Frigate - Dune Universe
• Heighliner - Dune Universe
• Hyperion - Flagship of Jim Raynor in StarCraft
• ISA Excalibur - Earth Alliance
• Jupiter 2 - fictional nuclear powered spacecraft from the 1965-68 television series Lost in Space
• Liberator - Blake's 7
• Libertad - a sub-light speed training ship in the anime series Strain: Strategic Armored Infantry
• Megazone - the title spaceship in the OVA series Megazone 23.
• Minbari - Victory class destroyer based on Vorlon technology from the Babylon 5 universe.
• Nemesis - Flagship of the Decepticons (Transformers)
• Nirvana - a supership from the anime series Vandread.
• Normandy SR-1 - an alliance frigate that serves as Commander Shepard's base of operations in the Mass Effect Universe.
• Normandy SR-2 - a larger and more advanced version of the original Normandy constructed by Cerberus that is assigned to Commander Shepard in the Mass Effect Universe.
• NSEA Protector - a starship from the film Galaxy Quest
• Orbit Jet - winged-tail rocket ship (Rocky Jones, Space Ranger)
• Orion - saucer patrol craft in Raumpatrouille
• Prometheus - Weyland Corporation scientific vessel (Prometheus)
• SDF-1 Macross - a massive interstellar transforming spacecraft from the anime Super Dimension Fortress Macross and its American adaptation Robotech
• SDF-3 Pioneer - the flagship of Admiral Rick Hunter in Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles
• Shangri-La - the mothership of the Mu race in the science fiction manga and anime series Toward the Terra (地球へ… Terra e...)
• Star Destroyer - Mainstay capital ships of the Imperial starfleet - Star Wars
• Sulaco - Conestoga-class light assault carrier from Aliens
• Swordbreaker - the mysterious spaceship owned by Kain Blueriver in the anime series Lost Universe.
• Terra V - Buzz Corey's space cruiser in Space Patrol (1950 TV series)
• Titan - the title spaceship in the movie Titan A.E
• TFNS Irena Riva y Silva - a 2 kilometer-long monitor that serves as Fleet Admiral Raymond Prescott's flagship in David Weber's Starfire Series. It was destroyed during the Battle of Home Hive 5. (Designation: Task Group 71.1, Task Force 71, 7th Fleet.)
• USS Enterprise, various incarnations from Star Trek see: starfleet ships for more information.
• USS Saratoga, a space carrier in Space: Above and Beyond, aboard which serve the members of the U.S. Marine Corps Space Aviator Cavalry, 58th Squadron, or "Wildcards."
• Valkyrie - Titan A.E.
• Yamato (大和) - the title spaceship of the anime series Space Battleship Yamato

Space fighters

"Space fighters" are fictional spacecraft analogous to fighter aircraft. They are popular as the subjects of flight simulators, movies and books. The following are some examples of notable space fighters from various media franchises:

Babylon 5

The Earth Alliance (Starfury fighters)

• SA-23E Aurora
• SA-23J Thunderbolt
• Raider Fighter

The Minbari Federation

• Nial-class Heavy Fighter

The Narn Regime

• Frazi-class Fighter

The Centauri Republic

• Sentri-class Medium Fighter

The Shadows

• Shadow Fighter

The Vorlons

• Vorlon Fighter

Battlestar Galactica

The Twelve Colonies

• Colonial Viper
• Colonial Viper MK. II
• Colonial Blackbird

The Cylons

• Cylon Raider
• Cylon Heavy Raider

Buck Rogers in the 25th Century

The Earth Defense Directorate

• Star Fighter
• Hawk's Fighter

The Draconian Empire

• Draconian Marauder

The Last Starfighter

• Star League Gunstar (first major movie to use CGI for space battle sequences)

Space: Above and Beyond

The United States Marine Corps

• SA-43 Hammerhead Endo/Exo-Atmospheric Attack Jet

The Chigs

• Chig Fighter

Stargate

Tau'ri/Earth (USAF fighters)

• X-301
• F-302

The Goa'uld

• Death glider
• Needle Threader

The Wraith

• Wraith dart

The Ori

• Ori Fighter

Star Wars

In the Star Wars universe, a starfighter is a blanket term for all small combat space craft, regardless of shields, hyperspace capability, weaponry (unless it carries none), armor, maneuverability and crew. "Snubfighter" (a term first used in Star Wars), though no concise definition has been given, often refers to a fighter carrying shielding, secondary weapons systems such as Proton Torpedoes or concussion missiles, and being hyperspace capable. Starfighters sometimes bear mission designations similar to modern fighter aircraft, such as "strike fighter" and "space superiority fighter".

Galactic Republic

• ARC-170 starfighter
• V-19 Torrent starfighter
• V-wing starfighter
• Jedi starfighter
• Jedi interceptor

Rebel Alliance/New Republic

• A-wing
• B-wing
• X-wing
• Y-wing

Galactic Empire

• TIE fighter
• TIE Advanced
• TIE Interceptor
• TIE Bomber

Confederacy of Independent Systems

• Droid starfighter (Vulture droid)
• Geonosian starfighter
• Droid Tri-Fighter
• Naboo starfighter

Other properties

Andromeda

• RF-42 Centaur Tactical Fighter

Halo

• UNSC C-709 Longsword Interceptor
• UNSC YSS-1000 Sabre space superiority fighter - notably, uses a Shuttle-style booster system for planetary launch.
• UNSC F-41 'Broadsword' Exoatmospheric Multirole Strike Fighter

Transportation

• Eagle 5 - Spaceballs
• Elysium - Pandorum
• Hispania - Freelancer
• Hunter-Gratzner - Pitch Black
• Millennium Falcon
• Nostalgia for Infinity - Revelation Space
• Nostromo - modified Lockmart CM-88B Bison Transport; Commercial towing vessel from the movie Alien
• Serenity - Firefly class transport. Firefly and Serenity

Intergalactic

• Andromeda Ascendant - Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda
• Deucalion - an enormous transforming spaceship over 63,000 km long from the anime series Kiddy Grade
• Destiny - The ship in which Stargate Universe takes place.
• Stargate ship types including the Daedalus-class battlecruiser of Earth, the O'Neill-class of the Asgard or the Aurora-class of the Lanteans.

Personal spacecraft

• Bat-Rocket - Batman
• Betty - Alien Resurrection
• EEV - Bodenwerke Gemeinschaft Type 337 Emergency Escape Vehicle Alien 3
• Escape Pod – Used by C-3PO and R2-D2 to escape from the empire in Star Wars: A New Hope
• EVA Pod - multi-functional vehicle used in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey
• Lemon Rocket - Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures
• Narcissus - Modified Lockmart Starcub Light Intrasystem Shuttle; shuttlecraft for the Weyland-Yutani commercial hauler USCSS Nostromo in the film Alien
• TARDIS (Time and Relative Dimension In Space) – the Doctor's time machine in Doctor Who, with the external appearance of a 1950s police box
• Technowing - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Lists of fictional spacecraft

• List of Doctor Who vehicles
• List of Dune ships
• List of fictional space navies
• List of fictional space stations
• List of films featuring space stations
• List of ships in Starship Operators
• List of spacecraft from the Space Odyssey series
• List of ships in Battlestar Galactica (2004)
• List of ships of the Culture
• Lists of Star Trek ships
• List of Star Wars starfighters
• List of Star Wars spacecraft
• Spaceships in Transformers: Cybertron

See also

• Bioship
• Flying saucer
• Foo fighter
• Interstellar ark
• Jump drive
• Military spacecraft in fiction
• Non-rocket spacelaunch
• Space dock
• Space tourism
• Spacecraft
• Starship
• Unidentified flying object
• United States gravity control propulsion research (1955–1974)
• Wormhole

External links

• Starship Dimensions - A graphic comparison of fictional spaceship sizes.
• Hypergate - Spaceship pics in HD quality.