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Articles tagged: suborbital flight

  • Blue Origin, New Shepard, Oliver Daemen, suborbital flight, Wally Funk 19 July 2021 Blue Origin ready for first crewed New Shepard launch 20 July

    ... carry Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos and three others on a 10 minute flight to the edge of space. Bezos will be the second billionaire to reach suborbital space in less than two weeks, having been pipped to the post by Virgin...

    • Blue Origin
    • New Shepard
    • Oliver Daemen
    • suborbital flight
    • Wally Funk
  • Apollo, Moon race, NASA, rocket development, Soviet spacecraft July 2019 Lessons from our first race to the Moon

    ... safely to Earth “before the decade is out”. He had been impressed by the massive popular reaction in the US to the suborbital flight of Scott Carpenter a month earlier, and saw a Moon landing as an initiative that could establish the US as the world...

    • Apollo
    • Moon race
    • NASA
    • rocket development
    • Soviet spacecraft
    Authors: Pat Norris    
  • Concorde, satellites, space travel, spaceplane June 2017 Spaceplane rationale - a new way of thinking

    ... to satellite speed that requires most of the energy - just climbing to space altitude requires far less. A so-called suborbital flight, up and down again with just a few minutes in space, requires a maximum speed of about 1 km per second, or about...

    • Concorde
    • satellites
    • space travel
    • spaceplane
    Authors: David Ashford    
  • Ascender, Bristol Spaceplanes, Commercial spaceflight, Spacecab, spaceplane May 2024 Spaceflight revolution on a shoestring

    ... We propose to develop the lower stage first, as it can operate on its own carrying 20 passengers in an attached module on suborbital flights. Suborbital flights have a trajectory close to the vertical and provide just a few minutes in space. Orbital...

    • Ascender
    • Bristol Spaceplanes
    • Commercial spaceflight
    • Spacecab
    • spaceplane
    Authors: David Ashford    
  • air-space boundary, commercial space, recreational space, space tourism September 2021 Near space - the air-space boundary question, astronauts and space tourism

    ... the nature of what it is to be an astronaut. The media has been eager to discuss whether those flying on the two suborbital flights qualify as astronauts based largely on the altitude of the mission. As will be shown, there is more to it than simply...

    • air-space boundary
    • commercial space
    • recreational space
    • space tourism
    Authors: Christopher J. Newman    
  • Ascender, Bristol Spaceplanes, reusable rocket, spaceplane October 2019 Time to overcome the expendable rocket mindset

    .... The Spacecab upper stage could be either a passenger module carrying about 20 people that remains attached for a suborbital flight, or a reusable orbiter that separates at Mach 4 and carries on to orbit under rocket power. The key to this low...

    • Ascender
    • Bristol Spaceplanes
    • reusable rocket
    • spaceplane
    Authors: David Ashford    
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