Recovery

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Recovery

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1. The procedure or action that obtains when the whole of a satellite, or a section, instrumentation package, or other part of a rocket vehicle is retrieved after a launch, as in recovery was counted upon to give added data. </dd>
2. The conversion of kinetic energy to potential energy such as in the deceleration of air in the duct of a ramjet engine. Also called ram recovery. </dd>
3. In flying, the action of a lifting vehicle returning to an equilibrium attitude after a nonequilibrium maneuver. </dd>

References

This article is based on NASA's Dictionary of Technical Terms for Aerospace Use