high velocities, with orbital kinetic energies typically greater than suborbital trajectories. This kinetic energy is shed as heat during reentry. Many...

nations have only achieved suborbital spaceflight capability by launching indigenous rockets or missiles or both into suborbital space: Nazi Germany (June...

artificial satellites. In addition, some countries have only attained a suborbital spaceflight, and have yet to launch a satellite into orbit. Timeline of...

at Mojave Air and Space Port in California, noted for the SpaceShipTwo suborbital spaceplane designed for space tourism. In March 2000, Branson was knighted...

Virgin Galactic's new VSS Unity, a SpaceShipTwo-class rocket-powered suborbital spaceplane in Mojave, California. 20 February A U.S. airstrike on 19 February...

SpaceX uses a suborbital test facility, the SpaceX Rocket Development and Test Facility in McGregor, Texas. A high-altitude suborbital test facility was...

come in contact with the surface of the Earth. A skyhook would require a suborbital launch vehicle to reach its lower end, while a space elevator would not...

Alan Shepard became the first American in space, completing a 15-minute suborbital journey. After being recovered from the Atlantic Ocean, he received a...

near Payerne Air Base, where it planned to build a spaceport in 2015. Suborbital spaceplanes were to be launched from an Airbus A300, giving the spacecraft...

Oregon, US, conducted flight tests for NanoLaunch, a project to launch suborbital sounding rockets from MiG-21s flying over the Pacific Ocean. The company...

and studio is open to the public. In 2024, Dwight was selected for a suborbital spacefight mission on a planned Blue Origin's New Shepard NS-25, sponsored...

including space tourism and interplanetary travel. Some vehicles reached suborbital space much earlier than the launch of Sputnik. In June 1944, a German...

Administration also recognizes this line as a space boundary: Suborbital Flight: Suborbital spaceflight occurs when a spacecraft reaches space but its velocity...

Report on operation 'Backfire' Recording and analysis of the trajectory. Vol. 5. Ministry of Supply. January 1946. pp. 9–11. L. D. White (September 1952)...

core engine. The core stage then separated while the rocket was in a suborbital trajectory, and the upper stage carried it to orbit. Once the upper stage...

an "honorary guest" alongside five paying customers onboard NS-20, a suborbital flight of its New Shepard craft planned for later that month. However...

another four CSMs had flown as uncrewed Apollo tests, of which two were suborbital flights and another two were orbital flights. Following the conclusion...

Space Rocket (KSR) is a Kuwaiti project to build and launch the first suborbital liquid bi-propellant rocket in Arabia. The project is divided into two...

missile as the basis for the Mercury-Redstone Launch Vehicle to be used for suborbital test flights of the Project Mercury spacecraft. Three uncrewed MRLV launch...

normally being divergent, and 3-5 on the preoperculum, normally 5. The suborbital stay is normally securely attached to the preoperculum, although in some...

Branson launched on board the Virgin Galactic Unity 22 mission. Bezos's suborbital flight lasted over 10 minutes, reaching a peak altitude of 66.5 miles...

2024. Retrieved March 8, 2024. "Commercial Space Transportation License No. VOL 23-129 Rev. 2". Federal Aviation Administration. March 13, 2024. Archived...

Dobrzyński 2015, p. 90. "Star Lab Suborbital Launch Vehicle: Official Unveiling and Flight Test, October 27, 2011". starlab-suborbital.com. Archived from the original...

line was sold to Handmark, Inc. in 2002. In 2024, Hess was selected in a suborbital spacefight mission to fly on a planned Blue Origin's New Shepard NS-25...

Anastatia Mayers flew on Galactic 02 at the age of 18. Since Mayers flew a suborbital mission, Tereshkova remains the youngest woman to fly in Earth orbit....

spacecraft (in space) with propulsion off (e.g. in a continuous orbit, or on a suborbital trajectory (ballistics) going up for some minutes, and then down). An...

in the Mercury-Redstone 2 capsule on 31 January 1961, and survived the suborbital flight. Enos, the third primate to orbit Earth after Soviet cosmonauts...

first Saturn I, Block I, mission SA-1, lofted a dummy upper stage on a suborbital trajectory into the Atlantic. The subsequent three Saturn I launches took...

aborted before landing. Two Block I CSMs were launched from LC-34 on suborbital flights in 1966 with the Saturn IB. The first, AS-201 launched on February...

include HAPSMobile, UP Aerospace, SpinLaunch, and Virgin Galactic. Over 300 suborbital flights have been successfully launched from Spaceport America since 2006...