deorbit

Verb

 * 1)  To cause to leave orbit.
 * 2) * 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
 * 1) * 1998, Curtis Peebles, High Frontier: The U.S. Air Force & the Military Space Program - Page 59
 * 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.
 * 1) * 2007, U.S. Government, Proposed fiscal year 2008 budget request for the Department of the Interior ... - Page 83
 * process will be initiated and over approximately one year the satellites will be maneuvered into an orbit that will eventually safely deorbit them.
 * 1)  Of an orbiting object, such as a satellite, to leave orbit.
 * 2) * 1986, Gloria W. Heath, ed., Space Safety and Rescue, 1984-1985: Proceedings of Symposia, page 62
 * The Gemini emergency occurred when Gemini 8 deorbited and landed in the Northern Pacific 1000 miles south of Japan.

Translations

 * Czech:
 * Finnish: suistaa radaltaan
 * French:


 * Czech:
 * Finnish: suistua radaltaan

Noun

 * 1) The act or process of leaving orbit.

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 * French:
 * Italian: deorbitazione