Orion 50ST
Thick-skirt Taurus Standard first-stage Orion solid rocket motor variant.
Identity
- Aliases
- Orion 50 STTaurus Standard first-stage motor
- Domains
- spaceflight
- Identity Level
- variant
- Kind
- solid-rocket-motor
- Name
- Orion 50ST
- Status
- retired
Details
- Description
- Thick-skirt Taurus Standard first-stage Orion solid rocket motor variant.
- Developers
- Family
- Manufacturers
- Propellants
- solid propellant
Assets & Meta
- Creation Time
- August 1, 2026 at 17:48:38 UTC
- Updated Time
- August 1, 2026 at 17:48:38 UTC
Other
- Sources
- Accessed Date
- 2026-08-01
- Note
- The Orion application table identifies Orion 50ST as the Taurus Standard first-stage motor and the product history lists Taurus Standard use.
- Publisher
- Northrop Grumman
- Title
- Propulsion Products Catalog
- Accessed Date
- 2026-08-01
- Note
- NASA's launch-vehicle table identifies the Taurus first-stage Orion 50-series motor and the third-stage Orion 38 stack; Northrop's later catalog resolves the Taurus Standard suffix as 50ST.
- Publisher
- NASA
- Title
- Aeronautics and Space Report of the President, 1998