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Meaning of aerocapture | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

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.

countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Français aérocapture

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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See also

aerocar aerocartograph aerocartographic aerocartography aerocele aerochemical

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