yo-yo despin (English, noun)
expansion: yo-yo despin (uncountable)
Senses:
topics: aerospace
astronautics
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A method of reducing the rotation rate of a rapidly-spinning spacecraft by unreeling a pair of weights from the spinning spacecraft, greatly increasing the spacecraft's moment of inertia and transferring most of the spacecraft's angular momentum to the weights.
tags: uncountable
Forms:
form: yo-yo de-spin
tags: alternative