deorbit

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To cause to leave orbit.

   • 1996, DIANE Publishing Company, Intelligence Threat Handbook The principal improvements in the systems are the ability to return film canisters without deorbiting the spacecraft, and the extension of orbital […]
   • First, an orbiting weapon required elaborate spacecraft systems, such as retro-rockets to deorbit it, others to guide it, and still others to arm it.
   • […] process will be initiated and over approximately one year the satellites will be maneuvered into an orbit that will eventually safely deorbit them.
2. 2

   Of an orbiting object, such as a satellite

   Of an orbiting object, such as a satellite: to leave orbit.

   • The Gemini emergency occurred when Gemini 8 deorbited and landed in the Northern Pacific 1000 miles south of Japan.
   • Vostok 3 deorbited first, at 09.24 MT on 15 August, followed six minutes later by Vostok 4.
   • Viktor is a friend of mine," she says. "He tells me that he has had strange dreams since Mir deorbited."
3. 3

   The act or process of leaving orbit.

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