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Etymology
Blend of astro- + navigate
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astrogate (third-person singular simple present astrogates, present participle astrogating, simple past and past participle astrogated)
- (science fiction, transitive, intransitive) To astronavigate; to control and guide a spacecraft.
1966, Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, New York: Ace, published 2018, Book 3, Chapter 25:Sure, Mike was used to having many loads in trajectory at once—but had never had to astrogate more than one at a time. Now he had hundreds and had promised to deliver twenty-nine of them simultaneously to the exact second at twenty-nine pinpointed targets.
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