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You are confusing aerobraking with aerocapture.
Aerobraking is used to circularize an elliptical orbit into a circular one after orbit insertion, and it has been used a few times on the following missions:
Hiten: this was a demonstration mission in Earth orbit
Magellan: Around Venus
Mars Global surveyor
Mars Odyssey
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
Venus ...
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