Aren’t all flights suborbital? Don’t we have flights that can go around the planet, but we wouldn’t call them being in orbit. I think they should have to get to orbital velocity then come down and land before circumventing the planet to be called a sub orbital flight, otherwise it’s just a flight
Eh, if I jump up and down, I’ve done a suborbital hop, but not any kind of spaceflight. In my mind, in order to be considered spaceflight, a flight must reach the edge of space (debatably 100 km or 50 miles) and include a couple minutes of zero-g experience.
Suborbital non-spaceflight is not a very meaningful label. That’s just a flight.
Orbital non-spaceflight probably means one particular thing to a lot of people.
Assuming the steel plate didn’t disintegrate in the atmosphere, I think it should count as non-orbital spaceflight, not orbital non-spaceflight. It can’t be orbital if it never completes an orbit, right? It was just yeeted directly to escape velocity. Maybe super-orbital spaceflight?
