NTR: Suborbital space flight

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Preferred term label

Suborbital space flight

Synonyms

Suborbital flight

Textual definition

o Suborbital space flight - a flight in which a vehicle, launched from either the ground or from an aircraft, has a trajectory which carries it above a substantial part of the Earth's atmosphere but does not reach orbit. The occupants and/or contents experience a period (typically minutes) of microgravity by virtue of being in free fall.m.

Suggested parent term

material transport process
physical quality of a process

Attribution

Jack Miller