yo-weight
yo-weight · yo-weights
A weight unreeled from a discarded rocket stage to unbalance the stage and cause it to…A weight unreeled from a discarded rocket stage to unbalance the stage and cause it to tumble, preventing the stage's residual thrust from causing it to ram the payload that discarded the stage.
US/ˈjoʊ.wait/
Meaning
1 sensesA weight unreeled from a discarded rocket stage to unbalance the stage and cause it to tumble, preventing the stage's residual thrust from causing it to ram the payload that discarded the stage.
Origin
By analogy with the paired yo-yo weights similarly unreeled in the course of yo-yo despin.By analogy with the paired yo-yo weights similarly unreeled in the course of yo-yo despin.
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