A number of suborbital spaceflights were conducted during 2008. These consist mostly of sounding rocket missions and missile tests, and include other flights...
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A sub-orbital spaceflight is a spaceflight in which the spacecraft reaches outer space, but its trajectory intersects the surface of the gravitating body...
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spaceflights, 2000-present Suborbital spaceflight in 2008 Timeline of spaceflight Bergin, Chris. "NASASpaceFlight.com". Clark, Stephen. "Spaceflight Now"...
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modern orbital and suborbital launch systems in the 21st century. More recent commercial spaceflight projects include the suborbital flights of Virgin...
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g. for space tourism or commercial in-space research. The first private human spaceflight launch was a suborbital flight on SpaceShipOne on June 21, 2004...
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future orbital and suborbital spaceflight launches and events. For an overview of spaceflight in the near future, see 2020s in spaceflight. The United Kingdom...
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rocket, became the first spacefaring nation in 1944. The following nations have only achieved suborbital spaceflight capability by launching indigenous rockets...
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Private spaceflight companies include non-governmental or privately-owned entities focused on developing and/or offering equipment and services geared...
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Virgin Galactic (category Private spaceflight companies)
headquartered in California, and operates from New Mexico. The company develops commercial spacecraft and provides suborbital spaceflights to space tourists...
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Spaceflight in 2025 promises to follow the 2020s trend of record-breaking orbital launches (with at least 300 expected) and increased developments in...
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An orbital spaceflight (or orbital flight) is a spaceflight in which a spacecraft is placed on a trajectory where it could remain in space for at least...
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Galactic's suborbital spaceplane VSS Unity since 2021. On 29 June 2023, Virgin Galactic flew their first commercial suborbital spaceflight mission, Galactic...
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a suborbital trajectory. The criteria for what constitutes human spaceflight vary. The Fédération Aéronautique Internationale defines spaceflight as...
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Prichal, launched 24 November 2021. In the United States, Virgin Galactic conducted the first suborbital human spaceflight from New Mexico on 22 May 2021 with...
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America on Galactic 06 suborbital space tourism mission. Galactic 07 launched on 8 June, the final flight of Unity suborbital spaceplane. Blue Origin's...
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its first ever suborbital launch in 2022. Moldova, Armenia, Uganda and Zimbabwe have their own satellite in orbit for the first time in 2022. NASA continued...
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Kerianne Flynn (category People who have flown in suborbital spaceflight)
Sánchez, for a suborbital flight, which took place on April 14, 2025, from Launch Site One in West Texas. Flynn lives in a penthouse in the Tribeca neighborhood...
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Blue Origin (category Private spaceflight companies)
company headquartered in Kent, Washington. The company operates the suborbital New Shepard rocket and the heavy-lift New Glenn rocket. In addition to producing...
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general assemblies. The chairman is Jørgen Skyt. Copenhagen Suborbitals was founded in 2008 by Kristian von Bengtson and Peter Madsen as a non-profit,...
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Spaceplane (redirect from Suborbital spaceplane)
external tank. Orbital spaceflight takes place at high velocities, with orbital kinetic energies typically greater than suborbital trajectories. This kinetic...
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This article outlines notable events occurring in 2005 in spaceflight, including major launches and EVAs. 2005 saw Iran launch its first satellite. For...
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Spaceflight began in the 20th century following theoretical and practical breakthroughs by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Robert H. Goddard, and Hermann Oberth...
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CU Spaceflight is a student-run society at the University of Cambridge. It is founded with the aim of achieving access to space, with minimal financial...
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Space burial (redirect from Burial in Space)
Memorial Spaceflights. Retrieved March 13, 2014. Harwood, William (September 29, 2004). "SpaceShipOne takes wild suborbital flight". Spaceflight Now. Retrieved...
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Space Adventures (category Private spaceflight companies)
flights, cosmonaut training programs, spaceflight qualification programs, and reservations on future suborbital spacecraft.[citation needed] Since 2001...
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List of Italian astronauts (section Suborbital)
of 2024, twelve Italians have been in space. Eight of those have made orbital flights, and five have made suborbital flights, Walter Villadei being the...
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Jim Wetherbee (category 1990 in spaceflight)
Origin launches Michael Strahan and crew of 5 on record-setting suborbital spaceflight". Space.com. Retrieved April 3, 2022. Wikimedia Commons has media...
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Ed Dwight (category People who have flown in suborbital spaceflight)
The gallery and studio is open to the public. In 2024, Dwight was selected for a suborbital spaceflight mission and flew on Blue Origin's New Shepard...
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Space tourism (redirect from Personal spaceflight)
There are several different types of space tourism, including orbital, suborbital and lunar space tourism. Tourists are motivated by the possibility of...
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