MEANING
A spacecraft’s fatal deceleration by impact with a solid body after its orbit is lowered too far.
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A failed braking maneuver ends with a spacecraft striking a solid world.Use for a fatal navigation error or destructive landing, especially when a planned atmospheric braking maneuver goes wrong.
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A navigation error turned the planned aerobraking pass into lithobraking against the moon.
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Word forms
- Base
- lithobraking
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