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aerocapture

noun

Etymology

From aero- + capture.

  1. derived from captūra
  2. borrowed from capture
  3. prefixed as aerocapture — “aero + capture”

Definitions

  1. A form of aerobraking in which a spacecraft uses atmospheric drag to decelerate from a…

    A form of aerobraking in which a spacecraft uses atmospheric drag to decelerate from a hyperbolic trajectory into a closed orbit, eliminating the need for a large orbital-insertion burn and requiring only small correction burns to raise the spacecraft's periapsis out of the atmosphere.

  2. To perform (an) aerocapture.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for aerocapture. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA