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Spacecraft's return phase
Answer for the clue "Spacecraft's return phase ", 8 letters:
re-entry
Word definitions for re-entry in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Re-entry is a 2001 studio album by Marley Marl , released on Barely Breaking Even Records.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. 1 The act of retaking possession of land, etc. 2 The return of a spacecraft into the Earth's atmosphere. n. 1 The act of retaking possession of land, etc. 2 The return of a spacecraft into the Earth's atmosphere.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ The shuttle made a successful re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Beneath them the underside of the command module comprised a specially designed shield that protected them from the heat of re-entry ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also reentry , mid-15c., "act of entering again," from re- "again" + entry ; probably on model of Middle French rentrer (12c.). Specifically of spacecraft from 1948.
Usage examples of re-entry.
Like the adult barnacle, the exterior of the ring was dotted with light-sensitive photophores, and when a suitable place for attachment was sensed, the ring colony was able to orient itself by means of excretions sprayed through pores in the skin of the tube, a method not dissimilar to that utilized by orbital vessels when aligning themselves for re-entry.
A ten-tonne projectile protected against re-entry ablation, travelling at orbital velocity, was a thousand times cheaper than nuclear or electroncompression weapons.
He was up as straight as a ramrod for Butch's re-entry, and over coffee and cake they snogged and canoodled like a couple of sweaty college kids no, not like that, more like a couple of actors in the pre-credits sequence of an adult movie.
Either Dahak had sufficient power to repair the damage, in which case the ship is, in fact, fully operational and would destroy him or his minions, or else Dahak had insufficient power to decontaminate the vessel's interior, in which case re-entry would remain effectively impossible without Imperial technology-which would activate any operational defensive programming.
In places the going was flat, or very nearly so: scree-filled basins, domed plateaux, rocky re-entries and pine-clad saddles.
If the heat shield was loose, then it might come off during the re-entry, unless the retropack straps held it in place long enough for the capsule to establish its angle of re-entry.