suborbital test flight
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concept
A suborbital test flight is a non-orbit-reaching experimental space mission used to validate vehicles, systems, or technologies by briefly sending them into space and returning them to Earth.
Observed surface forms (7)
- SpaceShipOne flight ×2
- suborbital spaceflight ×2
- Apollo test flight ×1
- New Shepard flight ×1
- New Shepard mission ×1
- Virgin Orbit mission ×1
- suborbital test mission ×1
Instances (13)
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Ares launch vehicles
surface form: Ares I-X
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Ares I-X test flight
surface form: Ares I-X
- Launch Demo 2 via concept surface "Virgin Orbit mission"
- Flight 15P via concept surface "suborbital spaceflight"
- Flight 16P via concept surface "SpaceShipOne flight"
- Flight 17P via concept surface "SpaceShipOne flight"
- Mercury-Redstone 2 via concept surface "suborbital spaceflight"
- NS-16 mission via concept surface "New Shepard flight"
- Blue Origin NS-16 crewed flight via concept surface "New Shepard mission"
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Ares I
surface form: Ares I-X
- AS-201 via concept surface "Apollo test flight"
- Gaganyaan TV-D3 via concept surface "suborbital test mission"
- SA-2