Deorbit

1996, DIANE Publishing Company, Intelligence Threat Handbook The principal improvements in the systems are the ability to return film canisters without deorbiting the spacecraft, and the extension of orbital […]

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.

[…] process will be initiated and over approximately one year the satellites will be maneuvered into an orbit that will eventually safely deorbit them.

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

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."