In a nutshell, aerobraking means lowering the spacecraft so that - TopicsExpress



          

In a nutshell, aerobraking means lowering the spacecraft so that for part of each orbit it dips down very low and skims through the very upper-most reaches of the Venusian atmosphere. By doing so, the spacecraft feels drag due to the gases at those altitudes, which can provide valuable data on the properties of the atmosphere and how the spacecraft and its components respond to such a hostile environment.
Posted on: Fri, 16 May 2014 13:20:22 +0000

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