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    high velocities, with orbital kinetic energies typically greater than suborbital trajectories. This kinetic energy is shed as heat during reentry. Many...
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    nations have only achieved suborbital spaceflight capability by launching indigenous rockets or missiles or both into suborbital space: Nazi Germany (June...
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  • artificial satellites. In addition, some countries have only attained a suborbital spaceflight, and have yet to launch a satellite into orbit. Timeline of...
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    Richard Branson (category People who have flown in suborbital spaceflight)
    at Mojave Air and Space Port in California, noted for the SpaceShipTwo suborbital spaceplane designed for space tourism. In March 2000, Branson was knighted...
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  • 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...
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    SpaceX uses a suborbital test facility, the SpaceX Rocket Development and Test Facility in McGregor, Texas. A high-altitude suborbital test facility was...
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    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...
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    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...
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    including space tourism and interplanetary travel. Some vehicles reached suborbital space much earlier than the launch of Sputnik. In June 1944, a German...
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    Oregon, US, conducted flight tests for NanoLaunch, a project to launch suborbital sounding rockets from MiG-21s flying over the Pacific Ocean. The company...
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