Sub-orbital spaceflight
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sub-orbital-spaceflight-206-195115
title:
Sub-orbital spaceflight
text:
A sub-orbital spaceflight is a spaceflight in which the spacecraft reaches outer space, but its trajectory intersects the surface of the gravitating body from which it was launched. Hence, it will not complete one orbital revolution, will not become an artificial satellite nor will it reach escape velocity. For example, the path of an object launched from Earth that reaches the Kármán line, and then falls back to Earth, is considered a sub-orbital spaceflight. Some sub-orbital flights have been
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Spaceflight where the spacecraft does not go into orbit
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub-orbital_spaceflight
date created:
2004-02-05T01:32:28Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T14:01:39Z
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