Taurus Orion
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Taurus Orion is the designation of a two-stage
sounding rocket
, consisting of a Taurus starting stage and an Orion upper stage. The Taurus Orion has a ceiling of 200 km, a takeoff thrust of 457.00 kN, a takeoff weight of 2000 kg, a diameter of 0.58 m and a length of 11.40 m.
Multistage rocket
A multistage rocket is a rocket that usestwo or more stages, each of which contains its own engines and propellant. A tandem or serial stage is mounted on top of another stage; a parallel stage is attached alongside another stage. The result is effectively two or more rockets stacked on top of or...
sounding rocket
Sounding rocket
A sounding rocket, sometimes called a research rocket, is an instrument-carrying rocket designed to take measurements and perform scientific experiments during its sub-orbital flight. The origin of the term comes from nautical vocabulary, where to sound is to throw a weighted line from a ship into...
, consisting of a Taurus starting stage and an Orion upper stage. The Taurus Orion has a ceiling of 200 km, a takeoff thrust of 457.00 kN, a takeoff weight of 2000 kg, a diameter of 0.58 m and a length of 11.40 m.