Special methods such as aerobraking or aerocapture are sometimes used for this final orbital adjustment.

During this time it made some orbital adjustments, raising its orbit.

The team's solution to both these problems was to equip SOHO with an onboard propulsion systermfor periodic orbital adjustments, knowing this imposed an in- herent limitation on its mission life.

Maintenance watches Kirinyaga discreetly, making minor orbital adjustments when necessary, assuring that our tropical climate remains constant.

We can't move at all except for minor orbital adjustment.

We can talk when I'm not burning fuel in orbital adjustments.

I had not ordered Maintenance to make any orbital adjustments lately, for the short rains were not due for another two months, and it was right that the days passed, hot and bright and unchanging.

After two orbital adjustments were performed on 18 September and 19 September the perilune was decreased to 15.1km, as well as the inclination altered in preparation for landing.

Refueling was completed by 28 May, more orbital adjustments were made 4 and 5 June, and Progress 6 was undocked 8 June.

In order to set up the Rendezvous Operations, the Soyuz spacecraft performed three orbital adjustments to increase its altitude.