Sentences with phrase «into suborbital space»

On June 19, Blue Origin launched their reusable New Shepherd rocket and crew capsule into suborbital space over western -LSB-...]

Virgin Galactic, Armadillo and Blue Origin are three of the companies competing to send people into suborbital space (classed as anywhere from 30 to 50 miles up).

XCOR is pursuing the latter paradigm with its winged rocket - powered Lynx, a reusable space vehicle that will take off from a conventional runway and blast into suborbital space (roughly 330,000 feet, or 63 miles) powered by an onboard rocket motor before flying back to Earth and landing on a conventional runway.

Until now, Blue Origin's rockets had been designed to go into suborbital space, which entails flying more than 62 miles above the earth's surface, but not high enough to make a full revolution.

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«In the next few years, suborbital spacecraft will transport scientific payloads and passengers into space.

Virgin Galactic plans to offer well - heeled tourists short suborbital trips into space by 2009.

Blue Origin, an aerospace company based in Kent, Washington, and led by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, is working on a rocket - propelled vehicle called New Shepard to carry people and microgravity experiments on suborbital trips into space.

Maverick aircraft designer Burt Rutan captured the Ansari X Prize in 2004 by lofting his manned, reusable rocket plane SpaceShipOne into space, but that was a suborbital flight requiring about 2 percent of the energy needed to reach and maintain orbit.

Several companies are developing systems to take people on short suborbital trips, or into orbit to non-NASA space stations.