Phase near the end of a space flight

Usage examples of reentry.

It was impossible to access a microsat, to modulate the shielding to prevent burnup on reentry, and then guide it to earth with such pinpoint accuracy that an attacking force less than fifty meters from the Resistance fighters would be wiped out, yet leave the other group untouched.

No matter how exactly a Beamspace course is plotted, the reentry point into Space-3 can be off by several light-minutes.

In the end they had to cut a gaping hole around the affected material, leaving the astro to do a decompressed reentry to the shuttle.

The great shipyards beyond the orbit of Uranus fashioned the comet-grown lumber into starships, space stations, habitats, intrasystem linerseverything except the small craft designed for atmospheric reentry.

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 reentry.

The explosion damaged the navigational guidance system and forced Frank Bellwether, its skipper, to try an eyeball insertion, a seat-of-the-pants reentry.

They drove in silence directly back to their apartment in Champaign and went through the same cautious routine of reentry.

The first was this: Two thousand years after the Great Failure, it was still standard decontamination pro­cedure to abandon in orbit any vehicle that had landed on the Martian surface, and, if possible, to send it on a destructive reentry path, to prevent any attempt by sal­vage crews who might be unwise enough to try and scav­enge a lander left in orbit.

Once the decontamination run was over, the Rio was supposed to put the Sao Paulo into a destructive reentry trajectory, then fly back to the Cruzeiro do Sul.

Its MEM would descend from orbit and go through reentry, and then, about six miles up and still traveling faster than sound, it would sprout a ballute—a cross between a balloon and a parachute, a huge, inflatable sail that would grab at the thin air.

On the hatch's inner surface, safe from reentry friction and corrosive atmospheres, were the painted blazons of her co-owners: the pearl roundel of Governor Halys, and the bright orange banderol—the oriflamme—of Councilor Frederic Duneen.

I think she reached brennschluss about six inches to the right of a standard piano keyboard, and coasted for another octave or two more before she reached apogee and began reentry.

Any meteor might be Cavorite in reentry, or Argos among the asteroids, making a few seconds' burn.

That gave the coxswains the space they needed to rein in the reentry vehicles without risking collision.

That gave the coxswains the space to bring their reentry vehicles under control without risking collision.