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suborbital Definition

sub·or·bital (sub ôr′bit'l)

adjective

  1. designating or of a flight in which a rocket, spacecraft, etc. follows a ballistic trajectory of less than one orbit
  2. beneath the orbit of the eye
suborbital Usage Examples

Modifies a noun

  • flight: Two hundred people have already paid deposits for the £ 58,500 a head suborbital flights to be launched from the Singapore base.
  • craft: In the meantime, Blue Origin is working on another suborbital craft.
  • space: The US has a new Spaceport from which Britain's Virgin Galactic plans to transport tourists into suborbital space by 2008.
  • spaceflights: The focal point of the proposed Spaceport Singapore will be suborbital spaceflights.
  • spaceflight: It also discusses the recent developments in commercial suborbital spaceflight and the history of suborbital rocketry.
  • vehicle: Ratan made history in October 2004 when his suborbital vehicle, SpaceShipOne, became the first manned private craft to make it into space.