sub-orbital spaceflight
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spaceflight where spacecraft leaves the astronomical body but doesn't reach orbit
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Vinony's link graph records 1,123 inbound references to sub-orbital spaceflight, and connects out to Soviet Union, NASA and outer space.
It is catalogued under topics including Spaceflight concepts and Suborbital spaceflight.
Vinony links it to 35 Wikipedia language editions.
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Encyclopedic overview
Video of sub-orbital spaceflight of Black Brant IX sounding rocket
A sub-orbital spaceflight is a spaceflight in which the vehicle 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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “sub-orbital spaceflight” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.