detumble

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detumble (third-person singular simple present detumbles, present participle detumbling, simple past and past participle detumbled)

(transitive, aerospace) To prevent tumbling or spinning of (a satellite, an astronaut, etc.).
- 1995, Jose Mira, From Natural to Artificial Neural Computation, page 315:
  The goal of the described control application is to detumble a satellite (reduce its kinetic energy) while achieving a desired orientation.