suborbital
adjective
sub·or·bit·al
ˌsəb-ˈȯr-bə-tᵊl 
1
: situated beneath the eye or the orbit of the eye
2
: being or involving less than one orbit (as of the earth or moon)
also
: intended for suborbital flight
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Since 2022, Virgin Galactic has been the only company offering commercial seats on suborbital spaceflights.
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Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 2 Feb. 2024
Rosano hopes so For Rosano, who has spent years recording human suborbital flights for his Suborbital Flight Journal website, being a small part of this new era has been an honor.
—Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 25 Jan. 2024
Unlike suborbital flights, future orbital flights with a spacewalk will require extensive training, given that spacewalks are inherently more dangerous than simply riding in a vessel.
—Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 14 Mar. 2024
Virgin Galactic, the suborbital space tourism company founded by British billionaire Richard Branson, is gearing up for its first flight to the edge of space in nearly two years in late May.
—Katie Hunt, CNN, 13 May 2023
Couple that with the dangerous fad of not wearing space suits on suborbital flights.
—Jim Clash, Forbes, 17 Feb. 2024
Both Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic already fly people almost entirely without training on brief suborbital hops.
—Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 22 Jan. 2024
Contrary to popular notions that space travel is a Wild West where anything goes, in fact there are extensive bodies of regulatory work governing suborbital and orbital flights alike.
—Rick N. Tumlinson, Scientific American, 15 Jan. 2024
On April 2, Ingenuity soared 52 feet up into the Martian sky - a record height for the drone - to take a suborbital photo of Mars’s landscape.
—Daniel Wu, Anchorage Daily News, 4 June 2023
Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 2 Feb. 2024
Rosano hopes so For Rosano, who has spent years recording human suborbital flights for his Suborbital Flight Journal website, being a small part of this new era has been an honor.
—Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 25 Jan. 2024
Unlike suborbital flights, future orbital flights with a spacewalk will require extensive training, given that spacewalks are inherently more dangerous than simply riding in a vessel.
—Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 14 Mar. 2024
Virgin Galactic, the suborbital space tourism company founded by British billionaire Richard Branson, is gearing up for its first flight to the edge of space in nearly two years in late May.
—Katie Hunt, CNN, 13 May 2023
Couple that with the dangerous fad of not wearing space suits on suborbital flights.
—Jim Clash, Forbes, 17 Feb. 2024
Both Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic already fly people almost entirely without training on brief suborbital hops.
—Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 22 Jan. 2024
Contrary to popular notions that space travel is a Wild West where anything goes, in fact there are extensive bodies of regulatory work governing suborbital and orbital flights alike.
—Rick N. Tumlinson, Scientific American, 15 Jan. 2024
On April 2, Ingenuity soared 52 feet up into the Martian sky - a record height for the drone - to take a suborbital photo of Mars’s landscape.
—Daniel Wu, Anchorage Daily News, 4 June 2023
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suborbital
adjective
sub·or·bit·al
ˌsəb-ˈȯr-bət-ᵊl
: situated or occurring beneath the eye or the orbit of the eye
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