aerocapture (English, noun)
expansion: aerocapture (countable and uncountable, plural aerocaptures)
Senses:
topics: aerospace
astronautics
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A form of aerobraking in which a spacecraft uses atmospheric drag to decelerate from a hyperbolic trajectory into a closed orbit, eliminating the need for a large orbital-insertion burn and requiring only small correction burns to raise the spacecraft's periapsis out of the atmosphere.
tags: countable
uncountable
Forms:
form: aerocaptures
tags: plural