What is "deorbit"

Usage examples of "deorbit".

After CRV sep, it would take twenty-five minutes for the evac vehicle to bring up guidance and landing targets, another fifteen minutes to set up the deorbit burn.

A functioning human being was necessary to flip the arming switches for the OMS deorbit burn.

It would take them twenty-five minutes to coast away from ISS and acquire GPS guidance, fifteen minutes for the deorbit burn setup.

After separation from ISS, it could travel a maximum of four revolutions around the earth before it was forced to deorbit and land.

If you keep your helmet on in the CRV and go straight to deorbit, you could make it down in time.

For a vehicle intended to deorbit and deliver them to a specific ground coordinate with only a fifty-meter margin of error, the whole arrangement seemed totally inadequate.

It had a rocket engine for the deorbit, but not enough fuel to make the plane change needed to get into the Russian orbit.

They were behind schedule, so a whole series of checks and rechecks were skipped, while the pilots went straight into the deorbit routine.

Much longer was the deorbit burn itself, with the unfamiliar tug of gravity--or acceleration, anyway--on their bodies, on their chests and faces.

I left, I preset its guidance system for a deorbit trajectory that would bring it down upon Ft.

Another tank containing fuel for the Reaction Control System has been added, providing the ability to deorbit with this system if a malfunction occurs in the main engine.

The EPL, their planetary lander, was adrift in orbit, capable of penetrating the atmosphere and landing on the planet but trapped in orbit without the fuel required to initiate a deorbit burn, much less enough fuel to land safely.

I left, I preset its guidance system for a deorbit trajectory that would bring it down on Fort Lopez.

The crippled Sealon attack craft, left behind in a low orbit when its two companions had raised their altitudes and shifted to polar orbits, had long since succumbed to drag, spiraling ever lower until it deorbited and screamed down through the atmosphere, a brilliant fireball, its remains impacting on a large, uninhabited island near the equator.

Dots of flame circled the Laputa like swarms of fireflies, some suddenly deorbiting to come arcing down on the ship.