Transport beyond the atmosphere, by orbital and suborbital flight. An entry belongs here when the cited article calls the mode spaceflight, orbital spaceflight or suborbital spaceflight. It excludes atmospheric flight and balloons. Entries are placed by what their own cited article says, so each one sits in the narrowest group its source supports, and the group page lists it beside the other members. It is one of the groups under the Air and Space Mode subcategory of the Transport atlas, which has its own browse page listing every group and member.
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Spaceflight (Wikipedia)
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Spaceflight (also space flight) is an application of astronautics to fly objects, usually spacecraft, into or through outer space, either with or without humans on board.
Wikipedia: Orbital spaceflight
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An orbital spaceflight (or orbital flight) is a spaceflight in which a spacecraft is placed on a trajectory where it could remain in space for at least one orbit.
Wikipedia: Sub-orbital Spaceflight
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A sub-orbital spaceflight is a spaceflight in which the vehicle reaches outer space, but its trajectory intersects the surface of the gravitating body from which it was launched.
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