noun
Meaning 1
A method of reducing the rotation rate of a rapidly-spinning spacecraft by unreeling a pair of weights from the spinning spacecraft, greatly increasing the spacecraft's moment of inertia and transferring most of the spacecraft's angular momentum to the weights.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: aerospace, astronautics, business, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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