deorbiting

One part of the early concept was to reuse the SSMEs by putting them on an ablative pallet and deorbiting them.

Shuttle-C - NASA Watch 2009

Yanking back and deorbiting "our" modules when we leave would be nothing more than spite and ruin prospects for international space cooperation with NASA for a century.

Russia Sees Future for its ISS Modules Beyond 2020 - NASA Watch 2009

Ad Astra Rocket Company of Webster, Texas has signed an agreement with NASA to provide a VASIMR for the ISS to provide thrust to keep it from deorbiting.

Telepresence and Micro-bots for Exploration? - NASA Watch 2009

Other than this we're stuck with silly missions such as sending John Glenn to space 40 years after sending John Glenn to space, conducting experiments of questionable scientific return in a $60 billion space station that will be scrap in 10 years (whose deorbiting should be fun, Skylab re-entry will seem child's play in comparison!).

Griffin Responds - Partially - NASA Watch 2008

In the future, the idea of deorbiting space born facilities intentionally will seem odd, as the components will be reused for new space construction efforts or the material will be used as feed stock for space manufacturing processes.

What's Next for SpaceX? - NASA Watch 2008

This means deorbiting dead satelites. design shrods which do not separate in debris and so forth.

Space Junk Threatens Future Missions | Universe Today 2009

This means deorbiting dead satellites. design shrouds which do not separate in debris and so forth.

Space Junk Threatens Future Missions | Universe Today 2009

If the US shot comes late enough that the entire thing is deorbiting, we can hope, with reasonable expectation, that all the debris should come down although the momentum imparted by the arriving missile will push some of the debris back into higher orbits, unless they can figure a way to have the missile reach apogee and then catch the satellite on the way back down.

ianrandalstrock's Journal ianrandalstrock 2008

We're going to be safely on the ground, and the space station is going to be safely well above the deorbiting satellite.

CNN Transcript Feb 19, 2008 2008

As if deorbiting would be a cop-out, a cowardly retreat.

Orbit John J. Nance 2006