detumble

English

Etymology

From de- +‎ tumble.

Verb

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

1. (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.