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  2. 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 ...

  3. Comparison of orbital launch systems - Wikipedia

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    Orbital launches including failures [a] 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 ...

  4. Comparison of crewed space vehicles - Wikipedia

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    Spacecraft Origin Manufacturer Range Launch system Crew size Length (m) Diameter (m) Launch mass (kg) Power system Recovery method Payload (kg) ‡

  5. Sub-orbital spaceflight - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Satélite de Reentrada Atmosférica - Wikipedia

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    The proposed flight schedule included a first sub-orbital test flight (SARA Suborbital 1) in 2014 [3] [4] using a VS-40 rocket launched from the Centro de Lançamento da Barreira do Inferno (Operação São Lourenço). [4]

  7. 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 ...

  8. Sounding rocket - Wikipedia

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    Due to their suborbital flight profile, sounding rockets are often much simpler than counterparts built for orbital flight. [2] Certain sounding rockets have an apogee between 1,000 and 1,500 km (620 and 930 miles), such as the Black Brant X and XII, which is the maximum apogee of their class. For certain purposes, sounding rockets may be flown ...

  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.