You are right... I stand corrected. They are different. But the question still remains, what practical use is this going to have? If it can’t make it out of our atmosphere and reenter, what good is it for the millions they have dumped into this thing and the millions they going to continue to dump into it? Just for “joy rides?”.
It’s a high profile tax shelter... :)
You’re not getting it. The Kármán line is at an altitude of 100,000 km. Above the Kármán line is space. Them’s the rules.
The first generation of SpaceShipTwo flew to 102,900 and 112,000 km — which, by definition, is SPACE. And it re-entered earth’s atmosphere, safely, carrying a human passenger.
It quite clearly is capable of re-entry, because it already has done it, twice even.