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aerocaptures

aerocaptures is the plural of aerocapture.

aerocaptures is the third-person singular simple present indicative of aerocapture.

Meaning of aerocapture

Noun

aerocapture (countable and uncountable, plural aerocaptures)

  1. 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.

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Questions about aerocaptures

What is aerocaptures the plural of?
Aerocaptures is the plural of aerocapture.

Words near aerocaptures in the dictionary

  1. aerocabs
  2. aerocamera
  3. aerocameras
  4. aerocapture
  5. aerocaptured
  6. aerocaptures
  7. aerocapturing
  8. aerocar
  9. aerocars
  10. aerocartograph
  11. aerocartographic

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