deorbiting
/diːˈɔrbɪtɪŋ/
verb
- Present participle of deorbit: the act of leaving or causing to leave orbit.
- Deorbiting a spacecraft requires precise timing and careful calculations.
- The team is deorbiting the satellite to avoid creating more space junk.
- They are deorbiting the old telescope to make way for a new observatory.
noun
- The process of leaving orbit, especially to return to a planet's surface.
- Engineers monitored the deorbiting closely to ensure the debris landed safely.
- The deorbiting of the space station will be one of the most complex operations ever attempted.
- The deorbiting of the capsule went smoothly, and it splashed down on schedule.