Discovery ’ s reentry from its higher than usual orbit required a deorbit burn of 4 min 58 s, the longest in shuttle history up to that time.

The post-spacecraft mission extension ran 2. 4 hours before executing the deorbit burn.

In this conception, launch operators would need to build the capability into their launch vehicle-robotic capture, navigation, mission duration extension, and substantial additional propellant – to be able to rendezvous with, capture and deorbit an existing derelict satellite from approximately the same orbital plane.

The Orbital Manueuvering System ( OMS ) engines were fired at 8: 48 PM PST over the Indian Ocean to deorbit the spaceraft, which landed on Runway 22 at Edwards Air Force Base, CA at 9: 54 PM, 10 December 1990 after a mission duration of 8 days, 23 hours, and 5 minutes.

Following 14 years of effort, the observatory was launched on the Space Shuttle Atlantis, mission STS-37, on 5 April 1991 and operated until its deorbit on 4 June 2000.

On August 13, 1998, Gennady launched with Sergei Avdeyev aboard Soyuz TM-28 to become the crew of Mir Expedition 26, whose primary mission was to make repairs to life support systems and prepare the station for deorbit, which was to take place after Expedition 27.

* February 7 – NASA announce budget plans – in the announcement, they state that a mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope will not take place, and that a robotic mission to deorbit the telescope with a safe descent into an ocean will take place.

Assembled in orbit from 1986 to 1996, Mir was the first modular space station and had a greater mass than that of any previous spacecraft, holding the record for the largest artificial satellite orbiting the Earth until its deorbit on 21 March 2001 ( a record now surpassed by the International Space Station ).

" The Advanced Common Evolved Stage family of upper-stages is being explicitly designed to have the potential for high leftover propellant margins so that derelict capture / deorbit might be accomplished, as well as with in-space refuelling capability that could provide the high delta-V required to deorbit even heavy objects from geosynchronous orbits.

The TMA-10 spacecraft undocked from the ISS at 07: 14 UTC on October 21, and deorbit occurred at 09: 47.

DART initiated its retirement programming, removed itself from the vicinity of MUBLCOM, and prepared for deorbit.

Extended designs using inflatable tension cone ballute technology have been proposed for NanoSat deorbit and recovery of low-mass (< ) satellites from low-Earth orbit.

Based on this analysis it was decided to use the alignment thrusters to deorbit the unit, and it was destroyed when it re-entered the Earth's atmosphere on 27 January 1974.

For return, the capsule would be substituted for the Progress ' docking probe before it left the space station, and then after the Progress-M performed its deorbit burn the capsule was ejected at 120 km altitude to reenter the atmosphere independently.

Atlantiss deorbit burn was performed on orbit 128 at around 11: 00 am EST ( 4: 00 pm UTC ), leading to a landing at Kennedy Space Center ( KSC ), Florida, on Runway 33 of the Shuttle Landing Facility.

A second landing opportunity had been planned in case of bad weather, for a KSC landing at 1: 37 pm EST with a deorbit burn at 12: 36 pm on orbit 129, but it was not required.

He was on board the Mir on January 14, when the departing Soyuz TM-17 spacecraft struck Kristall module two glancing blows during the customary inspection fly-around prior to the deorbit burn.

A final orbit-lowering burn was performed in early December 2005 to prepare the satellite for deorbit.

Nowadays resistojet propulsion is used for orbit insertion, attitude control, and deorbit of LEO satellites, including satellites in the Iridium satellite constellation.

The Flight Day 15 ( Friday, 18 March 1994 ) plan called for deorbit preps and a deorbit burn of 209 ft / s ( 63. 7 m / s ) at MET 13 / 22: 04 with a planned landing at KSC.

Flight Director John Shannon gave the go for Endeavour ’ s crew to fire the orbital maneuvering system engines for the deorbit burn at 9: 46 pm EST so that Endeavour could slow down to enter the Earth ’ s atmosphere.

They jettisoned the orbital module and made ready for deorbit burn to return to Earth.

Thiokol also produced a variety of liquid and solid rocket motors for the US space program, including deorbit motors for the Mercury and Gemini programs, rocket stages and separation rocket motors for the Apollo program, motors for the Pioneer, Surveyor, Viking, Voyager, and Magellan missions, updated CASTOR boosters for the Delta rocket, and the Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster.

On the sixth day ( 4 September 1983 ), experiment runs were completed and the crew prepared to deorbit.

The aeroshell's retrorockets fired to begin the lander deorbit maneuver.

After separation, rockets fired to begin lander deorbit.

It consisted of a small twin-nozzle rocket motor sufficient to deorbit the astronaut, a PET film bag six feet ( 1. 8 metres ) long with a flexible quarter-inch-thick ablative heat shield on the back, two pressurized canisters to fill it with polyurethane foam, a parachute, radio equipment and a survival kit.

During deorbit and landing, Musgrave stood in the cockpit and pointed a handheld video camera out the windows.

* 07: 06 EDT: T + 13: 20: 27 Discovery begins its 2-minute, 42-second retrograde deorbit burn over the Western Indian Ocean to the north of Madagascar.

* reentry phase ( starting at an altitude of 100 km ): 2 minutes – impact is at a speed of up to 4 km / s ( for early ICBMs less than 1 km / s ); see also maneuverable reentry vehicle.

The warhead is encased in a cone-shaped reentry vehicle and is difficult to detect in this phase of flight as there is no rocket exhaust or other emissions to mark its position to defenders.

Aegis BMD ( also known as Sea-Based Midcourse ) is designed to intercept ballistic missiles post-boost phase and prior to reentry.

In 2002, NMD was changed to Ground-Based Midcourse Defense ( GMD ), to differentiate it from other missile defense programs, such as space-based, sea-based, and defense targeting the boost phase and the reentry phase ( see flight phases ).

For a defense system, decoys and chaff for ICBMs would mainly work in mid-course: during the boost phase they would be inside the rocket, because separate rockets for each of many decoys would not be practical, while at atmospheric reentry light decoys and chaff considerably slow down and / or are destroyed in the atmosphere.

Three are vertical takeoff horizontal landing ( VTHL ) vehicles relying upon rocket lift for the ascent phase in reaching space and atmospheric lift for reentry, descent and landing.

Because suborbital spaceplanes are designed for trajectories that do not reach orbital speed, they do not need the kinds of thermal protection orbital spacecraft required during the hypersonic phase of atmospheric reentry.

While all spaceplanes have used atmospheric lift for the reentry phase, none to date have succeeded in a design that relies on aerodynamic lift for the ascent phase in reaching space ( excluding a mother ship first stage ).

He served as a support crew member for the first orbital flight test of the Space Shuttle ( Columbia ) in April 1981 and was the CAPCOM during the reentry phase for this mission.

His reentry into Venezuela marked a new, more violent phase of the wars of independence.

It has several distinct display modes for different phases of flight, including the boost phase, coast, reentry, and gliding.

Previously known as National Missile Defense ( NMD ), the name was changed in 2002 to differentiate it from other U. S. missile defense programs, such as space-based and sea-based intercept programs, or defense targeting the boost phase and the reentry phase ( see flight phases ).

The site was chosen as it was on the orbital track of a manned spacecraft during its reentry phase.

Plus the final atmospheric reentry phase, therefore, in total the JL-2's trajectory only has two phases and two stages.