yo-yo despin

短语

别名

yo-yo de-spin

释义与例句

n.
  1. 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.

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词源

From the cables being wrapped around the spacecraft and unreeling in the manner of a double yo-yo.

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