aerocapture

Short definition from Wiktionary

Noun

1. 1
   A form of aerobraking in which a spacecraft uses atmospheric drag to decelerate from a hyperbolic trajectory into a closed orbit, eliminating the need for a large orbital-insertion burn and requiring only small correction burns to raise the spacecraft's periapsis out of the atmosphere.

Verb

1. 1
   To perform (an) aerocapture.