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  2. Sub-orbital spaceflight - Wikipedia

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    Some sub-orbital flights have been undertaken to test spacecraft and launch vehicles later intended for orbital spaceflight. Other vehicles are specifically designed only for sub-orbital flight; examples include crewed vehicles, such as the X-15 and SpaceShipTwo, and uncrewed ones, such as ICBMs and sounding rockets.

  3. Comparison of orbital launch systems - Wikipedia

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    Suborbital test flights Launch site(s) Dates of flight LEO GTO Other First Latest Starship Block 1 [140] United States: SpaceX: 121 m 40,000 – 50,000 [141] N/A N/A Reusable: 0 6 Starbase: 2023 2024 Angara A5 / Orion Russia: Khrunichev: 54.9 m N/A 6,500 [142] 3,700 to GEO [142] Expendable: 1 [142] Plesetsk, Vostochny: 2024 2024 Angara A5 ...

  4. Orbital spaceflight - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Comparison of orbital launcher families - Wikipedia

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    Total: Flights which lift-off, or where the vehicle is destroyed during the terminal count Note: only includes orbital launches (flights launched with the intention of reaching orbit). Suborbital tests launches are not included in this listing. Space (regardless of outcome): Flights which reach approximately 100 km or more above Earth's surface.

  6. List of human spaceflights, 2021–present - Wikipedia

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    Mercury flight history; X-15 flight history (altitudes given in feet) Gemini flight history; Apollo flight history (student resource) Skylab flight history; Apollo-Soyuz flight history; Space Shuttle flight history infographic; Shenzhou flight history timeline; SpaceShipOne flight history; Soyuz MS-10 flight details; VSS Unity flight details

  7. Comparison of retired orbital launch systems - Wikipedia

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    (+ suborbital) Launch Sites Date of flight LEO GTO Other First Last Atlas-Able United States: General Dynamics: 28 m ~175 to TLI No 3 CCSFS: 1959 1960 Atlas-Agena United States: Convair/General Dynamics: 36 m 1,000 390 to TLI No 109 VAFB, CCSFS: 1960 1978 Atlas-Centaur United States: Lockheed: 36.2-38.8 m 1,134 [140] 2,222 [141] No 148: CCSFS ...

  8. List of Starship launches - Wikipedia

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    The second flight test of Starship had a test flight profile similar to the first flight, with the addition of a new hot-staging technique and the introduction of a water deluge system as part of the ground support equipment at the launch pad. During the first stage ascent, all 33 engines fired to full duration.

  9. Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator

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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.