Deorbit

Quick meaning: Deorbit is a verb meaning (transitive) To cause to leave orbit.

Meaning

(transitive) To cause to leave orbit.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive) Of an orbiting object, such as a satellite: to leave orbit.
2. The act or process of leaving orbit.

Example Sentences

Vostok 3 deorbited first, at 09.24 MT on 15 August, followed six minutes later by Vostok 4.

Viktor is a friend of mine," she says. "He tells me that he has had strange dreams since Mir deorbited."

The Gemini emergency occurred when Gemini 8 deorbited and landed in the Northern Pacific 1000 miles south of Japan.

First, an orbiting weapon required elaborate spacecraft systems, such as retro-rockets to deorbit it, others to guide it, and still others to arm it.

Word Forms

• deorbits
• deorbiting
• deorbited

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include disorb, deplanetize, debark, exorbitate, decay, deoccupy.

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