There is also growing acceptance of suborbital markets beyond space tourism. |
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What kinds of unusual economic trade-offs will future suborbital and orbital spacecraft create? |
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A privately-built rocket blasted off into suborbital space above California's Mojave Desert today. |
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They are doing much to open the door to a new marketplace offering the experience of weightlessness and suborbital space flight to the public. |
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Peripheral blood was collected using a capillary tube from suborbital veins of 5-to 6-week-old mice. |
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The palatines lie between the suborbital fenestrae, with the anterior palatine processes forming a short V-shaped wedge. |
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Again, it seems that the presence of many suborbital bones may be significant only at lower levels of systematics. |
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Less than 10 minutes after lift-off the payload parachuted safely back to Earth, and the suborbital flight was over. |
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In the suborbital flight regime, weightlessness or microgravity is not a significant issue. |
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A typical HTO suborbital concept might entail several minutes of microgravity. |
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The company tested its rocket motor in Mojave, California, in May and will test its suborbital spacecraft SpaceShipTwo later this year. |
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Developed specifically for scramjet testing in 1987, it has proven to be a versatile test bed for a wide range of suborbital aerodynamic projects. |
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Over the years, more than 3,500 suborbital flights were launched from the site. |
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Kelly wants to develop the Astroliner, a winged rocket towed into the air by a 747 jet and released at altitude to soar on a suborbital trajectory under its own power. |
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This had worked well, since there was an obvious difference between a suborbital and orbital launch, and little chance of confusing a launch vehicle with an aircraft. |
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The upper eyelid is lost, and the suborbital shelf is variably reduced. |
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Through this program, student experiments were selected in January 2002 to fly on either a NASA suborbital sounding rocket in June or a future Space Shuttle mission. |
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This should be a good time for the young suborbital spaceflight industry. |
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However, industry analysts believe that orbital flight will become a reality once suborbital flight is successfully established and seen to be profitable in the long term. |
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On 6 October 2004, the Missile Defense Agency launched a suborbital rocket to test the tracking abilities of missile defence systems. |
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Henry, and the rest of the scientific world, was eager to learn the effects of a suborbital flight on a monkey, whose anatomy resembles that of humans. |
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A test vehicle, the Enterprise, was used for suborbital approach and landing tests but did not fly in space. |
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He will also bring attention to water conservation issues and play music on his guitar, all while soaring over the Earth in the world's most sophisticated suborbital laboratory. |
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The competitions will also help accelerate the development of the private suborbital space flight industry. |
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Army launched Able, a rhesus monkey, and Baker, a squirrel monkey, aboard a Jupiter missile for a suborbital flight which both primates survived. |
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Now financial backer of Scaled Composites, a company trying to build a cheap suborbital spacecraft. Jeff Bezos, founder and chief executive of Amazon.com. |
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And that is weird. To infinity and beyondLike the other craft under development, New Shepard is, according to its backers, intended for suborbital flights. |
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The suborbital flights until now could be covered by air traffic law. |
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Germany is of the opinion that especially the current limited space tourism activities in the form of suborbital flights do not give reason to consider at present a more concrete borderline between outer space and airspace. |
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It will contribute to CSA planning for technology development, suborbital science, instrument contributions to international space missions, and Canadian science satellites in the coming decade. |
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Presentations and discussion will address science merit, synergy with other science and operational EO satellites, science and technical readiness, suborbital development activities, cost and partnerships. |
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The suborbital, though, had a direct feed to a comsat, and the channel ought to be secure. |
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Consumers interested in experiencing one of the first suborbital space flights can enter for a chance to win the Diet 7UP Free Ticket to Space sweepstakes by logging onto www. |
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With volunteer help over the years from people who work at places like the China Lake Naval Air Warfare Center, the Millirons have launched suborbital sounding rockets. |
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Suborbital and orbital transportation, however, do not require any property rights. |
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Suborbital space flight is much closer than any of us might have imagined even a few months ago. |
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Suborbital paths are the trajectories of choice for ballistic missiles. |
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