Astronautics Vocabulary : désorbitation
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Definition of de-orbiting
- Translation:
- désorbitation
- Definition:
- A manoeuvre by which a spacecraft is taken out of orbit around a celestial body in order to land it on a given point given of the body’s surface, or to crash it.
- Other Definition:
- None
- Synonym:
- None