Theory and Design Methods of Special Space Orbits pp 225-235 | Cite as
Theory and Design Method of Earth Pole-Sitter Orbit
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During the late 1970s and the early 1980s, inspired by the science fiction work Two Planets, Driver described a spacecraft which was able to hover over the Earth’s poles for a long time, and the earth pole-sitter orbit is exactly the orbit designed for this spacecraft.
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