How do you use Suborbital in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like path or route, plus the exact meaning.
Suborbital in a sentence
Suborbital meaning
- Not reaching orbit; having a trajectory that does not reach orbital velocity and so must return to ground eventually.
- Below the orbit of the eye.
Using Suborbital
- The main meaning on this page is: Not reaching orbit; having a trajectory that does not reach orbital velocity and so must return to ground eventually. | Below the orbit of the eye.
- Useful related words include: path, route, itinerary, subocular.
- In the example corpus, suborbital often appears in combinations such as: suborbital space, suborbital flight, to suborbital.
Context around Suborbital
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 10 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Suborbital
- In this selection, "suborbital" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, crewed, launched, spaceshiptwo, space, flights and rocket stand out and add context to how "suborbital" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 22 crewed suborbital flight and a suborbital science lab. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "suborbital" sits close to words such as aaf, aalen and abrogated, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with suborbital
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Interstellar developed and launched suborbital rockets before beginning work on an orbital rocket. (13 words)
Both included the possibility of testing research hardware and techniques on crewed suborbital flights. (14 words)
NS-25 will be its seventh human flight, shuttling its passengers to suborbital heights. (14 words)
The three members of the Italian Air Force and CNR will carry 13 scientific payloads to suborbital space, experiments that exploit microgravity and the effects of spaceflight on liquids, human tissue and other materials. (34 words)
While that worked for Virgin Galactic, few other space companies possess the name recognition and glamour of the suborbital tourism firm established in 2004 by British billionaire and Virgin Group founder Richard Branson. (33 words)
Blue Origin’s first orbital class rocket, New Glenn, is the second launch vehicle developed by the company, following New Shepard, its suborbital rocket used for short tourism flights and research opportunities. (32 words)
Example sentences (20)
A suborbital science lab has been installed within the cabin of the SpaceShipTwo aircraft VSS Unity, which is the rocket-powered spaceplane that transports passengers for Virgin Galactic.
Blue Origin’s New Shepard lifts off Aug. 44 on the NS-22 crewed suborbital flight.
Both included the possibility of testing research hardware and techniques on crewed suborbital flights.
Interstellar developed and launched suborbital rockets before beginning work on an orbital rocket.
The three members of the Italian Air Force and CNR will carry 13 scientific payloads to suborbital space, experiments that exploit microgravity and the effects of spaceflight on liquids, human tissue and other materials.
Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo suborbital spaceplane, VSS Unity, attached to its VMS Eve mothership ahead of its June 29 flight.
Blue Origin’s first orbital class rocket, New Glenn, is the second launch vehicle developed by the company, following New Shepard, its suborbital rocket used for short tourism flights and research opportunities.
NS-25 will be its seventh human flight, shuttling its passengers to suborbital heights.
The company said the six-person crew of the NS-25 suborbital mission will include Ed Dwight.
Blue Origin is testing the New Shepard rocket and crew capsule for eventual flights to loft passengers on suborbital flights to space and back.
One option, he said, is to fly astronauts on commercial suborbital vehicles like Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo for training and research, but that they’re not actively pursuing that currently.
Two Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) experi-ments were aboard Blue Origin's New Shepard suborbital rocket today, which launched from Van Horn, Texas.
Virgin Galactic, publicly traded under its own name, is in the final countdown to flying the first customer into suborbital space.
While that worked for Virgin Galactic, few other space companies possess the name recognition and glamour of the suborbital tourism firm established in 2004 by British billionaire and Virgin Group founder Richard Branson.
A new set of aerial images show off SpaceX's progress in preparation for the suborbital hop tests.
Apparently, the Third Reich was intent on using a hypersonic rocket-powered suborbital vehicle dubbed Silbervogel (Silverbird) to bomb targets inside the U.S. Thankfully, their plans never came to pass.
British billionaire Richard Branson founded Virgin Galactic in 2004 with the goal of developing a rocket-powered space plan that could shuttle passengers on brief trips to suborbital space.
Gilmour said that, previously, even suborbital launches required a minimum coverage of $750 million.
The New-U Station in front of the Halcyon Suborbital Spaceport (used during the “Space-Laser Tag” Mission) in the Meridian Metroplex now has a larger activation range.
Virgin Galactic currently has one operational SpaceShipTwo craft, the VSS Unity, which has completed two test flights to suborbital space and more under construction.
Common combinations with suborbital
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: