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Is the SS-520-5 both a floor wax and a desert topping? Can it be considered both a sounding rocket and an orbital vehicle?
The answer to If there "won't be" rockets to launch individual cubesats, then why did JAXA build exactly that? (SS-520-xx) begins
The SS-520-5 launcher is not intended to be an ...
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What distinguishes a sounding rocket from a suborbital flight?
What are the differences between a sounding rocket and a suborbital flight?
Sounding rockets have long been used for science purposes. Some of them have trajectories elliptic enough to do ...