suborbital
Below full orbit
Suborbital describes a trajectory that reaches space but doesn't complete a full orbit around Earth.
A suborbital flight goes up and comes back down without circling the planet: The rocket made a suborbital hop to test the engines.
Most early space tourism flights are suborbital, offering a few minutes of weightlessness before reentry.
Path of moving object
- parabolaSymmetrical open plane curve
- ballisticOf hurled objects
- reentryComing back in
- capsuleEnclosed dose container
apogee · weightlessness · microgravity · zero-g · payload · booster · propulsion · thrust
trajectory
Path of moving object
capsule · apogee · weightlessness · microgravity · zero-g · payload · booster · propulsion · thrust · liftoff
infraorbital
Below the eye socket
- periorbitalAround the eye socket
- socketHollow receiving cavity
- maxillaUpper jaw bone
eye · lacrimal · ethmoid · sphenoid · frontal · facial · cranial · ocular · cheekbone · ridge
- "Sub-" wordssubway, submarine, subtract, subject, suburb
- trajectoriestrajectory, arc, path, parabola, flight path
- weightlessnesszero gravity, zero-g, microgravity, weightless, weightlessness
- orbital mechanicseccentricity, inclination, apogee, perigee, epoch
suborbitalorbital
Revolving around another
interplanetary · deep space · translunar · geostationary · geosynchronous
- suborbital flightsSpacecraft trajectories below orbit