Crossword clues for suborbital
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Suborbital \Sub*or"bit*al\, Suborbitar \Sub*or"bit*ar\, a. (Anat.) Situated under or below the orbit.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. 1 Not reaching orbit; having a trajectory that does not reach escape velocity and so must return to ground eventually. 2 (context anatomy English) Below the orbit of the eye
WordNet
adj. having or involving a trajectory of less than one orbit; "the first manned suborbital flight"
situated on or below the floor of the eye socket; "a suborbital bone" [syn: subocular]
Usage examples of "suborbital".
Tory and the four aliens had taken the first ferry down to Mojave spaceport, where they had transferred to a suborbital flight to New York.
To the annoyance of the steward, I was on my feet the moment the suborbital landed.
I booked the three of us on the morning suborbital for London and went to bed, exhausted.
Hands free, she galloped to the suborbital shuttle bays on the roof of the PDF compound.
She was in suborbital flight, but there was no point in burning fuel near Earth.
They only went suborbital, and their ammonia tanks were frequently untouched on landing.
When I died, you know, they were just starting the suborbital flights and no one believed.
Neither did the Retreat itself, which let out the chance of cutting travel time by taking a suborbital shuttle.
The ship lifted without preamble, as different from the lumbering suborbital shuttle as a racehorse was from a steer.
Pacific Division had been allotted several refitted Jao transports that were too damaged for deep space, but adequate for suborbital boosting.
Others, judging by the shape of the cranium and the absence of a suborbital ridge, were not.
Somebody in authority had thought them worth the expense of a suborbital flight in a military craftand worth all the broken windows and deafened vacationers in Nevada before they got above the atmosphere.
The suborbital carrier was of a design he had never seen before, bulky and somehow muscular in its aluminum sleekness.
As soon as the sun broke above the horizon, the Essays launched for the two-hour suborbital flight to Aquarius Station.
Somebody in authority had thought them worth the expense of a suborbital flight in a military craftand worth all the broken windows and deafened vacationers in Nevada before they got above the atmosphere.