Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The use of atmospheric drag rather than onboard thrusters to reduce the velocity of a satellite or spacecraft.
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- noun The use of
atmospheric drag to reduce thevelocity of aspacecraft , especially so as to establish a stableorbit and to reduce fuel consumption
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Examples
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Using a new procedure called aerobraking, the robot spacecraft slowly adjusts to a circular orbit and in 1999 begins taking the first of almost 250,000 images of the Martian surface.
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Using a new procedure called aerobraking, the robot spacecraft slowly adjusts to a circular orbit and in 1999 begins taking the first of almost 250,000 images of the Martian surface.
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And this spacecraft will go through a series of so-called aerobraking maneuvers over the next few months.
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I selected Venus mostly as a conveniently nearby target that would enable a field test of several technologies such as aerobraking and, yes, long-duration life support that would ultimately be used on the Mars mission.
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I personally like the idea of the govt focusing its limited resources on pushing the key leveraging technologies that will enable long-term, far-ranging operations in space: nuclear propulsion & power, aerobraking, ISRU, tethers, closed-loop ECLSS, etc.
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(The architecture should ultimately involve the establishment of fuel depots, aerobraking, tethers, and reusable ascent/entry vehicles both at Earth and at the Moon);
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If your astronaut needs immediate attention while aerobraking there is no chance he/she will survive, unless you have some sort of an escape pod.
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"If your astronaut needs immediate attention while aerobraking there is no chance he/she will survive, unless you have some sort of an escape pod."
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For unmanned spacecraft you can use both aerobraking and propellant while with manned spacecraft you can use propellant.
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I said that "For unmanned spacecraft you can use both aerobraking and propellant while with manned spacecraft you can use propellant".
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