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    coasting flight
    1. A spacecraft's flight between the cutoff of one propulsive stage and the ignition of the next. Between the two stages, the spacecraft coasts along due to the momentum gained from the previous stage.


    2. The portion of flight between the end of the final burn and the reaching of peak altitude.


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