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    What is a suborbital flight?

    A suborbital flight is a trajectory in which a launch vehicle reaches space but does not achieve sufficient velocity to enter a stable orbit around the Earth. Instead, it follows a parabolic trajectory, allowing the vehicle and its payload to experience weightlessness before returning to Earth.

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