suborbital flight

collocation in English

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flight
noun
uk
/flaɪt/us
/flaɪt/
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A detector was placed in the nose cone section and the rocket was launched in asuborbitalflightto an altitude just above the atmosphere.
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As with the first three launches this would be asuborbitalflightand would test the structural integrity of the rocket.
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The project also looked at the legal and regulatory issues related tosuborbitalflightin consultation with government and international authorities.
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Thesuborbitalflightitself will only be a small fraction of that time.
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After his death in 2002, he was cremated and his ashes were later launched into space on asuborbitalflightin 2007.
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Neutrino is a sounding rocket designed for low-altitudesuborbitalflight, for the purpose of testing systems of its larger follow-on rockets.
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This was asuborbitalflightthat lasted 15 minutes and 37 seconds.
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The mission objectives of this unmannedsuborbitalflightwere to qualify the spacecraft for space flight and qualify the system for an upcoming primatesuborbitalflight.
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Most are proposing vehicles that make suborbital flights peaking at an altitude of 100160 kilometres.
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These suborbital flights reached 243km mi and 234km mi, respectively.
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