yo-yo de-spin

A form of yo-yo despin — 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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Meanings

nounyo-yo de-spin (uncountable)
  1. alternativeuncountableAlternative form of yo-yo despin.
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