1973 U.S. Patent 3,729,155 1 The flaps or slats..are hollow ailerons which are fitted to supersonic aircraft between the aerobrake panels and the trailing edges of the actual wing.

1980 Adv. Astronaut. Sci. 41 892 The mass of the aerobrake and associated hardware M_ab is assumed to be 250 kg.

1992 Engin. News-Record 30 Mar. 48/1 The truss, a 120-ft aerobrake to decelerate an orbiting manned spacecraft entering Mars' atmosphere, was designed..for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

2003 Adv. Space Res. 31 2413 The remainder of the propellant is used to fuel an orbital transfer vehicle (OTV), equipped with an aerobrake.

1977 Acta Astronautica 4 696 Of particular interest are the aerobraked tug studies.]

1985 Aviation Week & Space Technol. 20 May 133 Future aeroassisted orbital transfer vehicles..will aerobrake in the upper atmosphere to save fuel when changing from a high to low Earth orbit.

1992 K. S. Robinson Red Mars (1993) ii. 43 Once John Boone successfully aerobraked by hand, with a single main rocket functioning, hitting the safe millisecond of arc at the only possible speed.

2001 Guardian 25 Oct. i. 18/5 On Friday the Odyssey will begin to ‘aerobrake’—brush against the thin atmosphere of the planet—to slow itself further and tighten its orbit.