Sentences with phrase «short suborbital»

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

The Kent, Washington - based Blue Origin is currently developing a vehicle called New Shepard that is designed to take passengers on short suborbital trips so they can experience the thrill of weightlessness and see the blackness of space without the filter of Earth's atmosphere.

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

Not exact matches

But the measurements can be done in space — avoiding that glow — in just the short amount of time that a suborbital rocket flies above the atmosphere, before descending again back toward the planet.