aerocapture
English
noun
Definitions
- A form of aerobraking in which no initial orbit-injection burn is performed. Instead, the spacecraft plunges deeply into the atmosphere without an initial insertion burn, and emerges from this single pass in the atmosphere with an apoapsis near that of the desired orbit. Several small correction burns are then used to raise the periapsis and perform final adjustments.
Etymology
Prefix from English capture.
Origin
English
capture
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- capturability English
- capturable English
- capture English
- captureless English
- capturer English
- capturest English
- captureth English
- encapture English
- glycocapture English
- immunocapture English
- multicapture English
- oligocapture English
- photocapture English
- piscicapture English
- postcapture English
- recapture English
- uncapture English
- capture Middle French