spin-stabilized
(also spin-stabilised)
adjective
(Of a satellite or spacecraft) stabilized in a desired orientation by being made to rotate about an axis.Other ASVN applications include missiles and rockets that might rotate at launch for thrust equalization and to augment stability, or spin-stabilized micro- or nano-satellites....
- 220-mm Multiple Rocket Launcher The 9P140 Uragan (previously referred to incorrectly as BM - 22) is the world's first modern fin and spin-stabilized heavy rocket system.
- Is the ability to hit the target with high reliability influenced if the target is either tumbling or spin-stabilized?
Derivatives
spin-stabilization
- But as I understand it, the tumbling warheads are easier to build than non-tumbling warheads; it is harder to achieve spin-stabilization.
- The head separation, turnover and spin-stabilisation system was successful.
- All of these factors, taken together, constituted too great an element of unreliability, and this plus the development problems outweighed the strong points of the spin-stabilization concept.
- destruct
- destructibility
- destructible
- destruction
- destructive
- destructive distillation
- destructively
- destructiveness
- destructor
- desuetude
- desulfurize
- desulphurise
- desulphurization
- desulphurize
- desulphurizer
- desultorily
- desultoriness
- desultory
- desuperheater
- desynchronise
- desynchronization
- desynchronize
- Det.
- detach
- detachability