Definitions from Wiktionary (aerocapture)

▸ noun:  (astronautics) 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.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To perform (an) aerocapture.



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