Improved Orion sounding rocket
Improved Orion is a suborbital scientific launch configuration listed in NASA’s sounding-rocket vehicle catalogue. The agency’s January 2025 comparison chart identifies this design as vehicle type 30. The record identifies a standard research-flight configuration across missions.
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Identity
- Aliases
- Improved Orion
- Family Name
- Improved Orion
- Full Name
- Improved Orion sounding rocket
- Roles
- research
- Status
- active
- Type
- rocket
Details
- Description
- Improved Orion is a suborbital scientific launch configuration listed in NASA’s sounding-rocket vehicle catalogue. The agency’s January 2025 comparison chart identifies this design as vehicle type 30. The record identifies a standard research-flight configuration across missions.
- Operator
Links
- Official Url
- https://www.nasa.gov/soundingrockets/vehicles/
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- Creation Time
- October 17, 2026 at 13:57:48 UTC
- Updated Time
- October 17, 2026 at 13:57:48 UTC