#suborbital — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #suborbital, aggregated by home.social.
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#ArsTechnica says "The suborbital space tourism industry is on life support".
Well, duh. Some ridiculously high price for 7 minutes of microgravity (or whatever) is bullshit. You don't even reach the Kármán line (100 km)! They redefined some other threshold at 80 km just so you could say you went to space. Hint: if you have to redefine a common, long-agreed term, you're not adhering to the letter or the spirit of the law/guideline.
It's orbit or GTFO.
#orbit #suborbital #SpaceTourism #GTFO #KármánLine #VirginGalactic #BlueOrigin
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Rocket Lab wins $190 million Pentagon deal for hypersonic test flights
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Blue Origin halts New Shepard flights
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://spacenews.com/blue-origin-halts-new-shepard-flights/
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CAS Space conducts first suborbital launch and capsule landing test
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Altitude alone isn't a sensible way to define an #astronaut. Flying on a commercial airliner ✈️ does not make you an aviator. Riding in a ferry ⛴️ does not make you a mariner. Stepping into a #rocket 🚀 is an insufficient condition for #astronaut wings.
Orbital #tourism must reach #orbital speeds of approximately 28,000 km per hour. Orbital tourists spend more time in Space 🌌 and travel farther from Earth https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/who-owns-outer-space/space-tourism/DC27962FB213D032D820504C173E9BD8 -
Blue Origin flies first wheelchair user to space
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://spacenews.com/blue-origin-flies-first-wheelchair-user-to-space/
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Astrobotic secures contracts for suborbital vehicle development
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Blue Origin to increase New Shepard flight rate and consider new spaceports
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Purdue University to fly dedicated suborbital research mission with Virgin Galactic
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#Orbital and #Suborbital Launch Sites of the World 2025 https://brycetech.com/reports/report-documents/Bryce_Launch_Sites_2025.pdf by #BryceTech https://brycetech.com/reports
In #OpenStreetMap* 🗺️ https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/search?q=spaceport#values
*data used by #OsmAnd https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.osmand.plus/index.html, https://industry.openmaps.space or #Marble https://marble.kde.org (and many others)
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If #suborbital flights were used, travel time between #Taipei and #Houston could be shortened from 14½ to as little as 2½ hours ⏱️ https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3319170/us-taiwan-spaceport-may-cut-houston-taipei-travel-time-little-2-1/2-hours
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Dawn Aerospace begins sales of Aurora suborbital spaceplane
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#NASA defines #suborbital #rocket-powered vehicles
• #NewShepard
• #VSSUnity
• #SpaceLoft
https://science.nasa.gov/researchers/suborbitalSimilar definition for #infrastructure in #OpenStreetMap https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:aeroway:suborbital
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"Everybody’s going to know if you paid to be a passenger on a five-minute #suborbital flight or if you’re the commander of an interplanetary #space vehicle.”
100 kilometers is how the Swiss-based World Air Sports Federation defines the #Kármán line.
Experiencing #weightlessness has little to do with altitude. It's a minutes-long version of the sensation people experience when they reach the peak of a big roller-coaster 🎢 hill
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/04/13/science/blue-origin-karman-line-space-mission/index.html
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The German government supports a mobile satellite launch plan in the North Sea.
The German Ministry of Transport has approved €870,000 for a planned offshore spaceport.
This will enable the German Offshore Spaceport Alliance (GOSA) to develop a “holistic” solution for the spaceport for primarily commercial orbital and suborbital launches by the end of September.
#Germany #NorthSea #Space #Spaceport #Satellite #Orbital #Suborbital #Rocket #Rockets
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Blue Origin launches New Shepard on lunar gravity suborbital flight
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New Shepard flight to demonstrate lunar gravity
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://spacenews.com/new-shepard-flight-to-demonstrate-lunar-gravity/
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#space #commercial #virgin #suborbital
Virgin Galactic signs agreement to study suborbital spaceflights from Italian spaceport
https://spacenews.com/virgin-galactic-signs-agreement-to-study-suborbital-spaceflights-from-italian-spaceport/ via @SpaceNews_Inc
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🇨🇳 #DeepBlue Aerospace is selling the first two #suborbital tickets 📅 Oct. 24, will officially start suborbital travel commercialization in 📅 2027 https://spacenews.com/chinas-deep-blue-aerospace-reveals-suborbital-tourism-plans/
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Jeff Bezos' #BlueOrigin space venture launches a new #NewShepard rocket ship on an uncrewed certification flight in preparation for boosting its capacity to send customers on #suborbital #space trips. A dozen payloads were flown, including a set of mini-monoliths for a premium edition of "2001: A Space Odyssey." https://www.geekwire.com/2024/blue-origin-new-new-shepard-uncrewed-test/ #2001
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@marcushouse 🇳🇿 It really feels like the end of an era with #SpaceX's #Suborbital pad B being ripped apart.
The final static fire of a ship at the Gateway to Mars huh?
This has been a colossal week!
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@marcushouse 🇳🇿
It really feels like the end of an era with #SpaceX's #Suborbital pad B being ripped apart.
The final static fire of a ship at the Gateway to Mars huh?
This has been a colossal week!
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Ve Fediverse mi chybí spousta zajímavých věcí, které sleduju léta. Například věční garážoví stavitelé raket Copenhagen Suborbitals...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJvwOEJnbsU
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Excited for the second Virgin Galactic space flight in an hour and the first open to paying members of the public. Wondering how the technologies work, what it feels like to go to the edge of space, and what your rights as a passenger are?
Here's my @eveningstandard piece with insights from Luigi Scatteia of PwC 🚀🌍:
https://www.standard.co.uk/tech/virgin-galactic-space-flight-launch-rocket-tourism-b1099843.html#VirginGalactic #spaceflight #suborbital #edgeofspace #astronaut #spaceindustry #technology
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🏴 #SaxaVord #Spaceport : The first lift-off will be a #SubOrbital #rocket 🚀 made by #HyImpulse 🇩🇪, expected around 📆 October 2023. In 📆 April 2024, #RocketFactory aims to achieve the first-ever #orbital #satellite 🛰️ launch from a #LaunchPad called Fredo.
#SaxaVord will build a total of five #LaunchPads, with the site able to take #rockets up to 35 metres long 📏. https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/23611304.saxavord-spaceport-shetland-just-weeks-away-recognition/
Picture : #Latitude Test Zone at SaxaVord Spaceport https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Latitude_Test_Zone_at_SaxaVord_Spaceport_1.jpg
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#virgin #space #tourism #suborbital #research
Virgin Galactic ready to launch final test flight to suborbital space on May 25.
https://www.space.com/virgin-galactic-final-crewed-test-flight-preview
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Virgin Galactic Cautiously Returns To Flight - After Richard Branson delivered some inspiring words from his seat aboard SpaceShi... - https://hackaday.com/2023/05/04/virgin-galactic-cautiously-returns-to-flight/ #virgingalactic #currentevents #spacetourism #spaceplane #suborbital #featured #space #news
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"Above 30 km is too high for #balloons🎈and too low for #satellites 🛰️. Some #researchers refer to it as the #ignore-o-sphere. We know it has large implications on #climate models and #weather 🌪️ models." https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/04/a-new-zealand-company-has-started-flying-a-rocket-powered-spaceplane
Picture : :ccby: :cc_sa: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Atmosphere_structure-en.svg
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The State of Suborbital Space Science - Universe Today
https://www.universetoday.com/160565/the-state-of-suborbital-space-science/
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#NorthKorea on Dec 18 launched a small #Scud-class #suborbital #rocket from its Sohae space centre to an apogee of 500 km carrying a test payload for its planned #reconnaissance satellite. In the past it looks like they have had problems getting data back from their test satellites, so testing the payload & comm links on a short range test in view of the space centre makes sense: https://post.news/article/2J6bGVfLakWGkbCrqrMPME7Lhdw (and see also https://www.nknews.org/2022/12/10-years-after-pivotal-launch-north-koreas-space-odyssey-is-just-beginning/ for context).
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"By the time #BlueOrigin was created in 📆 2000, #Amazon had already earned him several billion. #SpaceX 🐇 came about two years later when #Musk successfully sold #PayPal for $160 million. The turtle’s pace 🐢 made #NewShepard #BlueOrigin’s only real achievement in 20 years. A #suborbital booster with a cargo-passenger capsule starts vertically and rises to a height of 100km" https://orbitaltoday.com/2022/04/19/blue-origin-vs-spacex-the-hard-race-to-space-leadership