How to Use suborbital in a Sentence

suborbital

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• For now, suborbital flights as a means of getting from point A to point B are a ways off.
  — Paul Sillers, CNN, 4 Apr. 2022
• Musk said that the first flight to orbit could be within 6 months of the first suborbital flight of Starship.
  — Wired, 28 Sep. 2019
• The trip to suborbital space takes just 11 minutes and sends passengers 62 miles above the surface of the Earth.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Nov. 2021
• The trade-off is that their use is limited to suborbital flight.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 9 Aug. 2019
• Richard Branson has been promising to take tourists on a suborbital space ride for a long time.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 15 Jan. 2020
• But even with a ticket, the wait time to get on a commercial suborbital flight may be long.
  — NBC News, 16 Sep. 2021
• The Starship design is meant to be used for both suborbital point-to-point flights on Earth and for deep-space missions such as to the moon and Mars.
  — Richard Tribou, orlandosentinel.com, 24 Dec. 2020
• The Starship design is meant to be used for both suborbital point-to-point flights on Earth and for deep-space missions.
  — Richard Tribou, orlandosentinel.com, 5 May 2021
• Vescovo flew at over three times the speed of sound on a Blue Origin rocket to suborbital space.
  — Jim Clash, Forbes, 7 June 2022
• Starship is the model SpaceX plans for both suborbital point-to-point flights around Earth as well as deep space missions to the moon and Mars.
  — Richard Tribou, orlandosentinel.com, 4 Sep. 2020
• Versions of Starship would be used for both suborbital point-to-point flights around Earth as well as deep space missions to the moon and Mars.
  — Richard Tribou, orlandosentinel.com, 10 Sep. 2020
• Blue Origin sees suborbital flights as a steppingstone to go to the Moon and beyond.
  — Jon Sindreu, WSJ, 12 July 2021
• These are the two pieces expected to attempt the first suborbital test flight for Starship.
  — Richard Tribou, orlandosentinel.com, 10 Feb. 2022
• Blue Origin, for its part, has only launched a handful of suborbital spaceflights that briefly flit along the edge of space.
  — Ramin Skibba, WIRED, 28 Dec. 2022
• One design — an up-and-down chevron topped with a five-pointed star — is for people who go on short suborbital flights.
  — New York Times, 26 July 2021
• So are the celebrities and wealthy entrepreneurs plunking down millions to join suborbital flights that touch the edge of space in flights replayed in prime time.
  — Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2021
• The Pew survey did not include a question about such suborbital trips.
  — Christian Davenport, Anchorage Daily News, 21 July 2023
• On that launch, Bezos, his brother, and two others went to suborbital space.
  — USA TODAY, 14 Oct. 2021
• The Starship design is meant to be used for both suborbital point-to-point flights on Earth and for deep-space missions such as to the moon and Mars when coupled with the booster.
  — Richard Tribou, orlandosentinel.com, 10 Feb. 2022
• The focus on suborbital tourism distracts from the strides space users have made in adding value to everyday life.
  — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 22 July 2021
• Couple that with the dangerous fad of not wearing space suits on suborbital flights.
  — Jim Clash, Forbes, 17 Feb. 2024
• Now Jeff Bezos may fly down in his cowboy hat from suborbital space with the world’s biggest checkbook?
  — Jason Gay, WSJ, 7 Mar. 2022
• If such accommodations are a bit out of your price range, how about a suborbital flight?
  — NBC News, 20 June 2018
• The Fatherhood actor isn't the only celebrity who has passed up a chance to join a suborbital mission.
  — Katie Campione, PEOPLE.com, 22 July 2021
• All of those went to orbit, though, while the New Shepard that is launching today is only suborbital.
  — Loren Grush, The Verge, 18 Dec. 2018
• Innospace will make a test launch of a single-stage, suborbital rocket in the fourth quarter of this year, Payload reports.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 6 May 2022
• The airplane then detaches from the wing after takeoff and flies through suborbital space.
  — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 1 Feb. 2022
• Blue Origin to sell suborbital flight tickets next year.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 29 June 2018
• The upper stage, meanwhile, flew a suborbital trajectory but did not survive the heating of reentry, with telemetry ending with the vehicle about 40 miles up.
  — Rob Pegoraro, PCMAG, 13 Oct. 2024
• To date, most space tourists have either taken a brief suborbital journey that provides a few moments of weightlessness, or (for significantly more money) traveled to the International Space Station.
  — Geoff Brumfiel, NPR, 10 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024