What is "deorbited"

Usage examples of "deorbited".

NASA had deorbited it in 2000, in a spectacular but controlled Pacific Ocean crash.

So, although the tangential approach of the Endeavor had evoked no discernible response, Resolute deorbited above the night side, where the solar-powered masers were inactive.

Seventeen cycles after this—when the scoring simulators indicated all surface batteries were indeed silenced—the main landing force deorbited and went about rehearsing its business of destruction.