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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
deorbit .
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Examples
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The return trip from the ISS takes the assembled spacecraft safely away, the disposable section is undocked and deorbited and the crewed spacecraft glides safely back and lands on a runway.
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He is gutting NASA and giving up the Shuttle to let the Russians give us overpriced rides to orbit all the while not having a way to resupply the $100 billion taxpayer investment in the international space station and if something happens to Soyuz it will have to be deorbited.
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And by the time Virgin will be able to do so, the ISS will have been deorbited in the Pacific.
Space Plane Idea for Laug Haul Flights Resurrected by Virgin - NASA Watch 2009
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And ISS will NOT be deorbited when the US is "done" with utilization (scheduled for 2020 now) - but what will happen has not been stated.
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It would be impossible to fix little rockets and computers to each of these sort of things prior to launch just so they can be deorbited…
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Hopefully most of these will be able to be safely deorbited.
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Make satellite manufacturers put enough fuel in their satellites that they can be deorbited when their mission is complete, and impose stiff fines for any debris released.
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The '85 test "resulted in more than 250 pieces of debris, the last of which deorbited in 2002."
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So, in this case what we're looking for is to try to have the debris, over 50 percent of it, within the first two orbits, or the first 10 or 15 hours, would be deorbited.
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But nothing this big has ever been deorbited in a controlled manner, and so we will be watching this very closely.
CNN Transcript - Sunday Morning News: Mir to Meet End Similar to SkyLab - March 18, 2001 2001
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