noun
definition
A suborbital bone
adjective
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Not reaching orbit; having a trajectory that does not reach orbital velocity and so must return to ground eventually
example
The first rocket test was suborbital; it didn't even get off the ground but rather exploded on the launchpad.
definition
Below the orbit of the eye
Examples of suborbital in a Sentence
In the meantime, Blue Origin is working on another suborbital craft.
It also discusses the recent developments in commercial suborbital spaceflight and the history of suborbital rocketry.
It also discusses the recent developments in commercial suborbital spaceflight and the history of suborbital spaceflight and the history of suborbital rocketry.
Two hundred people have already paid deposits for the £ 58,500 a head suborbital flights to be launched from the Singapore base.
The US has a new Spaceport from which Britain 's Virgin Galactic plans to transport tourists into suborbital space by 2008.
The focal point of the proposed Spaceport Singapore will be suborbital spaceflights.
Ratan made history in October 2004 when his suborbital vehicle, SpaceShipOne, became the first manned private craft to make it into space.
The crumen or suborbital face-gland, which is so largely developed and probably performs the same office in some antelopes and deer, is present, although in a comparatively rudimentary form, in most species, but is absent in others.