Rockets built to reach space briefly along a ballistic arc without achieving the velocity needed to stay in orbit. Belongs here: any launch vehicle whose mission profile is suborbital by design. Does not belong here: a rocket built to reach orbital velocity, grouped under Launch Vehicle.
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1. Wikipedia: V-2 rocket
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After an altitude of 100 km was selected to define the edge of space, the V-2 rocket also became retroactively the first artificial object to travel into space with the vertical launch of MW 18014 on 20 June 1944.
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