How to Use suborbital in a Sentence

suborbital

adjective
  • This marked its 12th suborbital test flight.
    — Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 May 2026
  • The entire suborbital test will take a little over an hour, if all goes to plan.
    — Mike Wall, Space.com, 20 May 2026
  • The trade-off is that their use is limited to suborbital flight.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 9 Aug. 2019
  • These are short suborbital trips that last about 90 minutes.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 8 Apr. 2026
  • But even with a ticket, the wait time to get on a commercial suborbital flight may be long.
    — NBC News, 16 Sep. 2021
  • Brief suborbital flights were supposed to be the gateway to space for thousands of tourists.
    — Michael Goldstein, Forbes.com, 24 May 2026
  • Blue Origin just launched a first-of-its kind mission to suborbital space.
    — Mike Wall, Space.com, 4 Feb. 2025
  • Richard Branson has been promising to take tourists on a suborbital space ride for a long time.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 15 Jan. 2020
  • For now, suborbital flights as a means of getting from point A to point B are a ways off.
    — Paul Sillers, CNN, 4 Apr. 2022
  • Its suborbital flight is likely to take place in 2028.
    — Aditya Jadhav, Interesting Engineering, 18 May 2026
  • The suborbital flight was a complete success.
    — Mike Wall, Space.com, 14 Oct. 2025
  • If such accommodations are a bit out of your price range, how about a suborbital flight?
    — NBC News, 20 June 2018
  • And for suborbital space tourism, quibbling over definitions can take on a life of its own.
    — Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 13 Apr. 2025
  • Couple that with the dangerous fad of not wearing space suits on suborbital flights.
    — Jim Clash, Forbes, 17 Feb. 2024
  • If the results of the flight pan out, the plan is to work up to a suborbital flight by 2029.
    — David Szondy june 21, New Atlas, 21 June 2025
  • The Pew survey did not include a question about such suborbital trips.
    — Christian Davenport, Anchorage Daily News, 21 July 2023
  • Things apparently went well on the flight, which was a brief suborbital shakeout cruise.
    — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 1 May 2026
  • On that launch, Bezos, his brother, and two others went to suborbital space.
    — USA TODAY, 14 Oct. 2021
  • But the first suborbital tourist flight did not take off for twenty years after Tito’s historic flight.
    — Michael Goldstein, Forbes.com, 24 May 2026
  • On its own, that may sound similar to other suborbital missions.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 28 Apr. 2026
  • The team has also flown samples aboard two suborbital rocket missions.
    — Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 16 Dec. 2025
  • The focus on suborbital tourism distracts from the strides space users have made in adding value to everyday life.
    — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 22 July 2021
  • Musk said that the first flight to orbit could be within 6 months of the first suborbital flight of Starship.
    — Wired, 28 Sep. 2019
  • These are the two pieces expected to attempt the first suborbital test flight for Starship.
    — Richard Tribou, orlandosentinel.com, 10 Feb. 2022
  • Vescovo flew at over three times the speed of sound on a Blue Origin rocket to suborbital space.
    — Jim Clash, Forbes, 7 June 2022
  • The airplane then detaches from the wing after takeoff and flies through suborbital space.
    — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 1 Feb. 2022
  • SpaceX has also launched five suborbital test flights of its Starship megarocket so far this year.
    — Mike Wall, Space.com, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Starship has launched on 11 suborbital test flights to date, the last two of them fully successful.
    — Mike Wall, Space.com, 11 Apr. 2026
  • Starship has launched on 11 suborbital test flights to date, the last two of them fully successful.
    — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Blue Origin, for its part, has only launched a handful of suborbital spaceflights that briefly flit along the edge of space.
    — Ramin Skibba, WIRED, 28 Dec. 2022

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