Taurus Commercial Series
The commercial Taurus series replaced the demonstrator’s Peacekeeper first stage with a Castor 120 and retained three Pegasus-derived solid upper stages. It flew orbital missions from 1998 through 2011 in multiple fairing and upper-stage configurations, including the higher-performance Taurus XL.
Identity
- Aliases
- Taurus rocketTaurus XLCommercial Taurus
- Family Name
- Taurus
- Full Name
- Taurus Commercial Series
- Reusability
- expendable
- Slug
- taurus-commercial-series
- Status
- retired
- Type
- rocket
- Variant Name
- Commercial / XL
Details
- Description
- The commercial Taurus series replaced the demonstrator’s Peacekeeper first stage with a Castor 120 and retained three Pegasus-derived solid upper stages. It flew orbital missions from 1998 through 2011 in multiple fairing and upper-stage configurations, including the higher-performance Taurus XL.
- Diameter M
- 2.36
- First Flight Year
- 1,998
- Height M
- 27.88
- Last Flight Year
- 2,011
- Liftoff Mass Kg
- 72,500
- Parent Vehicle Family Id
- nd7qc24wv7frm2jfsk6z7z3n4x8afjk0
- Payload Capacity Kg
- Gto
- 405
- Leo
- 1,350
- Stages Count
- 4
Links
- Wikipedia Url
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minotaur-C#Taurus
Assets & Meta
- Creation Time
- 7/13/2026, 11:06:36 AM
- Updated Time
- 7/13/2026, 11:06:36 AM