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Two successful NASA Langley Research Center led sub-orbital flight demonstrations of HIAD technology have occurred; Inflatable Reentry Vehicle Experiment 2 (IRVE-2) [7] and IRVE-3 [8] were flown in 2009 and 2012 respectively. LOFTID is the first orbital flight of a HIAD and the largest blunt bunt aeroshell entry to date.
Orbital Sciences 23.88 [2] 2.34 [citation needed] 86.3 [citation needed] 1735 [citation needed] 2010 - 1/1 Active Minotaur IV+: 4 United States: Orbital Sciences: 23.88 2.34 86.3 1985 2011 1/1 Active Minotaur IV/Orion 38 4 United States: Orbital Sciences 2017 - 1/1 Active Minotaur V: 5 United States: Orbital Sciences: 1.67 GTO:640 TLI:447 2013 ...
Profile for the first crewed American sub-orbital flight, 1961. Launch rocket lifts the spacecraft for the first 2:22 minutes. Dashed line: zero gravity. Science and Mechanics cover of November 1931, showing a proposed sub-orbital spaceship that would reach an altitude 700 miles (1,100 km) on its one hour trip from Berlin to New York.
This comparison of orbital launch systems lists the attributes of all current and future individual rocket configurations designed to reach orbit. A first list contains rockets that are operational or have attempted an orbital flight attempt as of 2024; a second list includes all upcoming rockets.
A Black Brant XII being launched from Wallops Flight Facility. A sounding rocket or rocketsonde, sometimes called a research rocket or a suborbital rocket, is an instrument-carrying rocket designed to take measurements and perform scientific experiments during its sub-orbital flight.
Point-to-point, or Earth to Earth transportation, is a category of sub-orbital spaceflight in which a spacecraft provides rapid transport between two terrestrial locations. [13] A conventional airline route between London and Sydney, a flight that normally lasts over twenty hours, could be traversed in less than one hour. [14]
An orbital spaceflight (or orbital flight) is a spaceflight in which a spacecraft is placed on a trajectory where it could remain in space for at least one orbit. To do this around the Earth , it must be on a free trajectory which has an altitude at perigee (altitude at closest approach) around 80 kilometers (50 mi); this is the boundary of ...
The Tronador I is an unguided liquid-fueled rocket [2] used for sub-orbital test flights. Its development led to the larger VEx test rocket, testing technologies needed for the Tronador II, which has a guidance system and would be capable of reaching low Earth orbit . [ 2 ]