aerobraking

基本解释

• n.利用大气之摩擦而减低太空船之运动速度

同根派生

英汉例句

• This process is a natural version of the aerobraking procedure that many planetary probes have used to enter orbit.
  这可说是自然界的空气煞车程序，许多行星探测船都得靠著空气煞车来进入轨道。
• But the aerobraking will last until late January, at which point Odyssey will whip around Mars once every two hours about 250 miles above the planet's surface.
  数天之后，探测器将开始它有限的探测工作。
• In the coming months, MRO's orbit will be circularized through repeated passages into Mars' outer atmosphere, a process known as aerobraking, shrinking its orbit to an altitude of only 280 kilometers.
  在接下来的几个月里，MRO的轨道将重复经过火星的外大气层，这就是减速过程，它将轨道高度降低到只有280公里。