Examples of suborbital in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The launch followed a pair of high-profile trips to suborbital space last year by billionaire entrepreneurs Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos. — NBC News, 8 Apr. 2022 Now Jeff Bezos may fly down in his cowboy hat from suborbital space with the world’s biggest checkbook? — Jason Gay, WSJ, 7 Mar. 2022 Last year, SpaceX sent an all-private crew of astronauts to orbit and both Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin and Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic safely launched crews of private astronauts on suborbital flights. — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 2 May 2022 For now, suborbital flights as a means of getting from point A to point B are a ways off. — Paul Sillers, CNN, 4 Apr. 2022 The 10-minute suborbital flight took six passengers, including Blue Origin engineer Gary Lai, to an altitude of 106 km (see webcast). — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 1 Apr. 2022 In 2021, Elon Musk’s SpaceX took four passengers on a three-day orbital trip around Earth and on Tuesday, Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin LLC plans to launch a six-member crew on a suborbital flight. — Patty Nieberg, Bloomberg.com, 28 Mar. 2022 These are the two pieces expected to attempt the first suborbital test flight for Starship. — Richard Tribou, orlandosentinel.com, 10 Feb. 2022 New Shepard, the suborbital space tourism vehicle that took Bezos to space shortly after Branson's flight in July, is fully autonomous. — Kristin Fisher And Jackie Wattles, CNN, 19 Oct. 2021 See More

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