What Is The Flight Time Of A Suborbital Rocket?

Suborbital rockets, also known as sounding rockets, commonly consist of a solid fuel rocket motor (a motor powered by solid propellants such as fuel / oxidizer) and a payload (the goods or instruments being carried).

A sounding rocket's average flight time lasts less than forty minutes, more usually between five and forty minutes. Its flight is completed in two stages. The sounding rocket consumes fuel on the first stage of the flight, as it rises. The rocket then separates from its payload, with the payload completing the arc. The sounding rocket then falls returning to earth via parachute.

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