suborbital
IPA: sʌbˈɔrbʌtʌɫ
noun
- (anatomy) A suborbital bone
adjective
- Not reaching orbit; having a trajectory that does not reach orbital velocity and so must return to ground eventually.
- (anatomy) Below the orbit of the eye.
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Examples of "suborbital" in Sentences
- Suborbital bar usually distinct.
- Suborbital bar absent or indistinct.
- Suborbital flights can last many hours.
- A sounding rocket suborbital with apogee of.
- Catalogued despite being on a suborbital trajectory.
- I suppose it depends on the definition of suborbital.
- Altairis, SACI's first generation suborbital spacecraft.
- Although a series of suborbital rockets are usually used.
- Another possibly lucrative market is suborbital transportation.
- The suborbital flight itself will only be a small fraction of that time.
- Trans-oceanic flights for people and freight in suborbital space vehicles will be the developing norm.
- Since it stops short of making a full orbit around Earth, SpaceShipTwo is known as a suborbital vehicle.
- At least Eric sees that another region of space i.e. "suborbital" is a place where market forces can create excitement and value.
- A Morse shot of Alan Shepard ran on Life's cover in May 1961, when Shepard's suborbital flight made him America's first man in space.
- The gloomy conclusion of these studies was that while certainty was impossible until the horrific moment, it looked like a suborbital nuclear air blast could zap our system into uselessness.
- The real market in suborbital flight is going to be tourism, which could be quite a significant market ... but that's something that really doesn't need NASA; it's a market that is developing on its own quite nicely.
- Burt Rutan and his team at Scaled Composites did it once again this morning, sending the rocket-propelled glider SpaceShipOne 63 miles above earth, into the nether regions of the atmosphere known as suborbital space.
- "Bezos 'Seattle-based Blue Origin suborbital space venture is starting the process to build an aerospace testing and operations center on a portion of the Corn Ranch, a 165,000-acre spread that the 41-year-old billionaire purchased north of Van Horn, Texas."
- On Jan. 12-13, the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory researcher and 11 other scientists will meet at the National AeroSpace Training and Research Center near Philadelphia, where they'll learn to work and conduct experiments in the wispy upper reaches of Earth's atmosphere known as suborbital space.
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