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Aerobraking, an Uncommon card
Aerobraking is a spaceflight maneuver that reduces the high point of an elliptical orbit by flying the vehicle through the atmosphere at the low point of the orbit.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 63
- DEF
- 42
- Power
- 105
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 16,000
Power 105 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 45 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The resulting drag slows the spacecraft.
- Aerobraking is used when a spacecraft requires a low orbit after arriving at a body with an atmosphere, as it requires less fuel than using propulsion to slow down.
- A more extreme maneuver is aerocapture, where a spacecraft uses an atmosphere to perform orbit insertion, decelerating from a flyby trajectory.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Aerobraking article was read about 16,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 63 and blocks with 42: each hit it takes is cut by 17 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Aerobraking (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : NASA/JPL/Corby Waste, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
