Suborbital flight   (translated from French)
Suborbital flight One suborbital flight or suborbital is trajectoire of one spacecraft moving at a suborbital speed, lower at the necessary speed so ... is maintained in orbite . The first American suborbital flight took place on May 5 ...
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Suborbital Lunar Lander Analog Challenge
Suborbital Lunar Lander Analog Challenge Announced by the ... program at the Xprize Cup Expo , the Suborbital Lunar Lander Analog Challenge is a prize ...
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List of suborbital space flights   (translated from Russian)
List of suborbital space flights According to the classification International ... height exceeds 50 miles (approximately 80 km). Suborbital space flights are called also ballistic trajectory ... flights. In the Sixties in USA 15 suborbital space flights were realized. Two flights according ... and USAF - United States Air force. Thirteen suborbital flights were realized on the space aircraft ... not leave, but completed flight along the suborbital trajectory. Three suborbital flights (№ № ...
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Mercury Program   (translated from Italian)
... I re-enter with thermal shield. The suborbital caps them Mercury met temperatures of re ... 21. 8. 1959 20 sec. without crew suborbital flight them, erroneous ignition of the rescue ... 9. 9. 1959 13 min. without crew suborbital flight succeeding them with partial Mercury-Little ... 4. 10. 1959 5 min. without crew suborbital flight them Mercury-Little-Joe 1A 4. 11. 1959 8 min. without crew suborbital flight them, bankrupt launch Mercury-Little- ...
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Project Mercury
... Mercury capsule The Mercury capsule Description Role: Suborbital and orbital spaceflight Crew: one, pilot Dimensions ... to the proper, heatshield first reentry attitude. Suborbital Mercury capsules encountered lower reentry temperatures and ... and abort procedures. Redstone was used for suborbital flights, and Atlas for orbital ones. Starting ... 1958, Jupiter missiles were also considered as suborbital launch vehicles for the Mercury program, but ... used the following launch vehicles: Little Joe - Suborbital, robotic, and primate flights. Launch escape ...
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Tier One
... Tier One is Scaled Composites' program of suborbital human spaceflight using the reusable spacecraft SpaceShipOne ... 25), nor the same altitude (100 km suborbital vs. 400 km orbit). SpaceShipOne also does ... refers to a prototype orbital craft, a suborbital tour bus, or some other concept remains ... 2004 Rutan suggested that a ten-passenger suborbital spacecraft would make a profitable tour bus ... Aerospace Ventures to carry paying passengers on suborbital tourist flights, using a scaled-up ...
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Rocket launch site
... Europe there are only launch sites for suborbital rockets. Esrange and Salto di Quirra are ... MMR06-M. In the 1970s Poland launched suborbital sounding rockets of the type Meteor from ... Woomera (Australia) Xichang (China) Launch sites for suborbital rockets in Europe Esrange (Sweden) Andøya Rocket ... Vik (Iceland) Karystos (Greece) Launch sites for suborbital rockets in Asia Al Anbar (Iraq) Akita ... Thumba (India) Tilla (Pakistan) Launch sites for suborbital rockets in Africa Overberg (South Africa) ...
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Private spaceflight
... Team launched the GoFast Rocket on a suborbital flight, the first amateur space flight on ... near future. One possibility is for paid suborbital tourism on craft like SpaceShipOne. Additionally, suborbital spacecraft have applications for faster intercontinental package ... the U.S. Economy FAA AST, 2006 Suborbital Reusable Launch Vehicles and Emerging Markets FAA AST, February 2005 Suborbital Reusable Launch Vehicles and Applicable Markets ...
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Virgin Galactic
... s Virgin Group, which plans to offer suborbital spaceflights and later orbital spaceflights to the ... for Rutan to design and build five suborbital tourist craft based on a scaled-up ... a nine-passenger craft. It will make suborbital flights lasting three hours overall, with about ... price of US$ 200,000 for a suborbital tourist flight, including a week of flight ... Northglenn, Colorado, won a free trip to suborbital space aboard Virgin Galactic, from a ...
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Centennial Challenges
... Rand Simberg's Transterrestrial Musings blog[6]. Suborbital Payload Challenge Announced at the XPrize Cup ... 250,000. The goal is to achieve suborbital altitudes that provide enough linger time for ... the kind of microgravity research NASA needs. Suborbital Lunar Lander Analog Challenge Also announced at ... Foundation, this prize is for a VTVL suborbital rocket that can achieve the altitudes and ... based materials Tether propulsion Very low cost suborbital launch. Challenges will be organized into ...
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