No. This and all previous flights have intentionlly been barely sub-orbital, with less than one orbit. Launch in Texas, re-entry over Indian Ocean. A full orbit at that altitude takes about 90 minutes; this was over in a little over an hour.
The reason was safety. If it was orbital, then controlling the re-entry would require a sucessful relight of the engines. If that failed then the re-entry point would depend upon the vagaries of orbital decay from residual atmospheric drag. That's no doubt why today's relight was so brief; they didn't want to significantly alter the reentry point.
The reason was safety. If it was orbital, then controlling the re-entry would require a sucessful relight of the engines. If that failed then the re-entry point would depend upon the vagaries of orbital decay from residual atmospheric drag. That's no doubt why today's relight was so brief; they didn't want to significantly alter the reentry point.