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If I understand things correctly, this launch won’t (try to) complete an orbit, either. It will make a water landing after less than one time around the earth.



To be pedantic, this launch will have orbital velocity; if it was circular it would be orbital. IOW, it's an orbit that intersects the Earth. So it is orbital by some definitions but not by others.


Right, I believe they will be a few tens of meters per second short of orbital velocity.




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