deorbit

Definitions

1. To cause to leave orbit.
   transitive
2. Of an orbiting object, such as a satellite: to leave orbit.
   intransitive

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“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."”

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