This is alist 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 oftransporting people.
Betty Boop – Intership shuttle used by the protagonists inGemina, the second book in theIlluminae series, to prevent timeline collapse by returning the corpses of the respective timelines' protagonist to their own universe.
Pathfinder (OV-201) -NERVA powered second-generationSpace Shuttle orbiter from season 2 of TV series For All Mankind, capable of cislunar flight with orbital refuelling
Aether – a large modular crewed spacecraft returning from a 2-year mission in the ongoing colonization of the fictional habitable Jovian moon X-13 in the 2020 movieThe Midnight Sky
Bilkis – an experimental spaceship in the anime seriesGeneshaft[18][19]
Cepheus – a ship made for transport between different bases and colonies in the deep Solar System in the movieAd Astra.
Democratic Circus – an interplanetary cruiser used for defensive and policing actions within the Epsilon Eridani system seen in theRevelation Space series.
Discovery One – a scientific research spacecraft sent to Jupiter in the novels:2001: A Space Odyssey and2010: Odyssey Two and the corresponding films:2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984).
Europa One – a scientific research spacecraft made to send astronauts to Jupiter's moon Europa to find extraterrestrial life under the moons surface inEuropa Report.
Lander – a ship used as a way to transport the crew ofEuropa One to the surface of Europa. It contains mining and recording materials to search for alien life under the surface of the moon.
Excelsior – from the 1918 Danish filmHimmelskibet (A Trip to Mars), "The film that marked the beginning of the space opera subgenre of science fiction." –Phil Hardy[20]
Iris Resupply Probe – Resupply probe, designed to giveMark Watney enough food to survive until Ares 4. The probe exploded during launch due to a rushed design and manufacturing stage.
MAV (Mars Ascent Vehicle) andMDV (Mars Descent Vehicle)landers – non-reusable landers used during the Ares missions
Hunter IV – personal fighter of Samus Aran from the Metroid series
Icarus I andIcarus II – spaceships from the 2007 movieSunshine[22]
Unnamed modularMars cycler spacecraft tethered to launch vehicleKingfisher to createartificial gravity for the fictional 2-year Mars mission MTS-42 in the 2021 movieStowaway
Valley Forge –American Airlines space freighter, outfitted with geodesic dome greenhouses preserving the last forests in the 1972 filmSilent Running[31]
Access Ark - A planet-sized spacecraft owned by the Haltmann Works Company, who invade Popstar and mechanize its landscape inKirby: Planet Robobot. It eventually merges with the game's overarching antagonist, Star Dream, and acts as the final area and the final boss of the game.
Alexander 78v – A United Terrain Authority (UTA) Battlecarrier, which helped evacuate rescuees from the battle on Kerenza IV in theIlluminae Files.
Arcadia (アルカディア号) – the most powerful space battleship in theCaptain Harlock universe, created by Tochiro Oyama as his final gift to his friendHarlock before his inevitable demise
LCAM-01XA Archangel – a state-of-the-art warship from the animeMobile Suit Gundam SEED &SEED Destiny. The first of its class, which it also takes its name from Archangel. She has a nearly identical sister-ship known as theDominion. Both ships are named after theHierarchy of angels, and had there been a 3rd sister-ship, she would've most likely been called theSeraphim.
Argonaut – the most advanced starship of the Iron Tribe in the anime seriesHeroic Age[35]
Ark – a ship fromTransformers.[36] The flagship of the Autobots commanded by Optimus Prime in severalTransformers series.[37] The computer of the ship was called Teletraan I (voice provided byCasey Kasem), and it provided intelligence to the Autobots for their various missions.[38] Theoriginal series saw it crashing on Earth several million years prior to 1984, and it was discovered some three million years before then by the characters ofBeast Wars: Transformers.
Aurora – Private starship owned by Alterra which had a mission of terraforming planets but was shot down when attempting a slingshot maneuver around planet 4546B. (From theSubnautica video game)
Axiom – the Buy n' Large starliner in the filmsWALL-E andBURN-E, which is used, together with other starships, to provide a temporary home for humanity,[39] but the originally planned 5-year cruise turns into a 700-year time period.
Battlestars Actually Spacecraft carriers originally 12, one for each colony, all destroyed except Galactica and Pegasus. the capital ships inBattlestar Galactica
Blip-A – light propelled (indirectly) ship built and crewed byEridians inProject Hail Mary.Blip-A is an exonym; the direct translation would be 'Ship'.
Conquistador – the largest battleship of the Henrietta Planetary Alliance(Starship Operators)[45]
Copernicus – independent explorer/hauler, theCopernicus helped rescue and transport evacuees of the Battle on Kerenza IV in theIlluminae Files. It was destroyed byAlexander's Artificial Intelligence Defense Analytics Network (A.I.D.A.N) when an outbreak ofPhobos, a bioweapon engineered by Beitech Industries for urban pacification, rendered it a threat to the fleet.
Daban Urnud – interdimensionalstarship that visits the planet of Arbre in the Neil Stephenson novelAnathem
"The Derelict" – the name given to the abandoned alien spacecraft discovered by the crew of the deep space tugNostromo in the filmAlien (1979)[46]
Darksyde – The Predacon transwarp ship in theBeast Warstelevision series.[47] The name was spelled with ay in theBeast Wars video game and in the DVD box set. In IDW Publishing's 2008Beast Wars Sourcebook it was spelled "Darkside". The ship's computer was voiced by Elizabeth Carol Savenkoff.[48]
Destiny Ascension – an Asari dreadnaught with a crew of 10,000 that serves as the flagship of the Citadel fleet in theMass Effect universe[49][50]
Eltrium – Earth's flagship of its interstellar fleet originally created as an evacuation ship in case of extraterrestrial attacks inGunbuster.
Endurance –NASA spacecraft/space station hybrid capable of traveling throughwormholes, mothership to Rangers and Landers inInterstellar[52]
Lander – two cargo spacecraft used in theEndurance mission to transport materials from theEndurance to Mann's planet; Lander 1 is later used by TARS to propel the craft far enough fromSMBH Gargantua.
Ranger – variousSSTO spaceplanes featured inInterstellar: the Ranger Test Article, piloted by Cooper during his crash; the twelve Rangers used during the Lazarus missions to carry astronauts through the wormhole to twelve potentially habitable planets; Ranger 1 and Ranger 2 used to carry personnel from theEndurance to Miller's, Mann's and Edmunds's planets (Ranger 2 is later used by Cooper like TARS's Lander); the futuristic Rangers, used aroundSaturn as the Cooper station's auxiliary craft (one is later stolen by Cooper and TARS to rejoin with Amelia on Edmunds's planet).
Event Horizon – gravity drive exploration starship, aiming to exploreProxima Centauri, disappears on its maiden voyage and rediscovered seven years later with its crew missing, a space-borne"Mary Celeste"
Exelion – 12 kilometer long warship originally commissioned as Earth's flagship inGunbuster.
Hypatia – Long range scientific exploration vessel used to escort evacuees from the Battle of Kerenza IV in theIlluminae Files.
Hail Mary – light propelled (indirectly) ship sent on a one way trip to Tau Ceti inProject Hail Mary to investigate Bee.
IMS Draconis – a Heavy-Transport vessel operated by the Interstellar Manufacturing Corporation, used to transport the Ark fold weapon and was ultimately destroyed during the air battle in the skies of Typhon during the events ofTitanfall 2.
IMS Malta – a battleship-type vessel operated by the Interstellar Manufacturing Corporation, acted as an escort ship to the IMS Draconis transport ship during the battle of Typhon, the ship was hijacked and captured by the Frontier militia and the 6-4 mercenaries group and was used to aid their own cause later on during the battle climax of the game.
IMS Thermopylae – a transport vessel operated by the Interstellar Manufacturing Corporation, also acted as an escort ship to the IMS Draconis transport ship during the battle of Typhon, following the events of Titanfall 2, the ship came into the possession of the Mercenary Syndicate and was destroyed and cut in half by falling debris resulting from an explosion made by Salvonian terrorists known as Cracked Talon during the events ofApex Legends.
Icarus – near-light speed ship with onboard cryogenic chambers used to land astronauts on habitable worlds thousands of light years away to ensure the survival of the human race inPlanet Of The Apes
Island Cluster Class Colonization Ship 25 (Macross Frontier) – Colony Fleet consisting on a transformable fighting ship, the main population vessel and other smaller islands from the animeMacross Frontier[55]
JJ-386 – Cobra mkIII piloted by John Jameson, which crashed into the planet HIP 12099 1 B following its unknowing biological attack on a Thargoid 'Hiveship.'
Justice of Toren – Sentient troop carrier from theImperial Radch book series. The ship is the main character and narrator of the book series, also known as Breq from the Gerentate.[57]
Karrajor – a warship from theCartoon Network seriesMegas XLR. It serves as a mothership for the squid-like alien race known as theGlorft.
Kobayashi Maru - the name of a fictional starship in a training simulation at Starfleet Academy in the Star Trek series.
R.L.S. Legacy – a space exploration vessel from the Disney animated filmTreasure Planet. It is a space ship that is designed to emulate aSailing ship from the 1600s.
Leonora Christine – colonization starship utilizing the fictionalBussard ramjet drive in the novelTau Zero to create enough speed for onboard time dilation to occur so the passengers can reach the far awayBeta Virginis star within their lifetime.
MCS James Macallan – Flagship of the 9th Militia Fleet of the Frontier Militia and the namesake of its class of carriers, it was named after James MacAllan, a major character from the firstTitanfall game. It is also the first ship to be destroyed during the battle between Militia forces and the IMC Space forces on the planet Typhon.
MCS Carter Braxton – A carrier used by the Frontier Militia of Titanfall 2, the ship was destroyed by the IMC BattleshipMalta during the battle at the skies of Typhon.
Megazone – the title spaceship in the OVA seriesMegazone 23[60]
Nirvana – a supership from the anime seriesVandread[65]
Normandy SR-1 – a Systems Alliance Navy frigate that serves asCommander Shepard's base of operations in theMass Effect universe. Sequels feature a larger and more advanced version known as the SR-2.[66][67]
USGIshimura – A planet-cracking mining vessel and the main setting of the first game ofDead Space. It is also referred to as the 'beginning of the Necromorph's takeover'.
USSCerritos – the primary ship inStar Trek: Lower Decks; see Starfleet ships for more information.
USSDiscovery – the primary ship inStar Trek: Discovery, which travels instantaneously through space using a mycelial network; see Starfleet ships for more information.
USSEnterprise – various incarnations of a space exploration vessel fromStar Trek; see Starfleet ships for more information[82][83]
USSOrville – The titular vessel from the 2017–present TV seriesThe Orville.
USSProtostar – the primary ship inStar Trek: Prodigy, which utilizes aprotostar to travel considerably faster than conventional warp speed; see Starfleet ships for more information.
Yggdrasil – starship owned by the Templars and used for the transportation of the nine Pilgrims to the planet Hyperion in the 1990 Dan Simmons NovelHyperion
"Space fighters" are fictional spacecraft analogous tofighter aircraft. They are popular as the subjects offlight simulators, movies and books. The following are some examples of notable space fighters from variousmedia franchises:
In theStar 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 inStar 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".
Aniara (Aniara) – A large spacecraft designed to carry copious amounts of passengers from Earths to Mars, however Aniara can support long-term space travel even though it isn't designed to
Arcadia Class Jumpship (Destiny 2) The Arcadia Class Jumpship is the first ship the player gets access to and allows them to fly to other planets in theSolar System
Nostromo – modified Lockmart CM-88B Bison Transport; commercial towing vessel from the filmAlien[136]
Out of Band II (Oobii) – a freighter from the Zones of Thought series by Vernor Vinge, the main ship used by a multi-species crew to travel to a planet near the center of the galaxy
Narcissus – modified Lockmart Starcub Light Intrasystem Shuttle; shuttlecraft for the Weyland-Yutani commercial hauler USCSSNostromo in the filmAlien[150]
Phoenix – first Earth spacecraft to achieve faster-than-light speed using warp drive; spaceship that instigated Earth's first contact with aliens inStar Trek: First Contact.
S.T.E.V. – short for "Shuttle Transport Emergency Vessel", a single-person spacecraft featured in the video gameVoid Bastards.
SSEmporium – Taybor the Trader's spacecraft, featured in the Year TwoSpace: 1999 episode "The Taybor". The spaceshipEmporium, inspired to theMars Excursion Module, is equipped with a special Jump Drive engine, which allows it to travel between two points viateleportation inhyperspace.
TARDIS (Time And Relative Dimension In Space) – various spacecraft-time machine hybrids equipped with some sort of jump drive featured on the television seriesDoctor Who.[151] Many TARDIS versions are featured,the Doctor's one (a Type 40 TT Capsule) externally resembles a British police box.
^The Transformers Beast Wars Sourcebook by Don Figueroa, Simon Furman, Ben Yee, Dan M. Khanna, Guido Guidi, Jake Isenberg, Marcelo Matere, Nick Roche, Rob Ruffolo and Simon Williams
^Encyclopedia of television shows, 1925 through 2007 by Vincent Terrace
