Theory and Design Method of Earth Pole-Sitter Orbit

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Abstract

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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© National Defense Industry Press and Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2017

Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Department of Space EquipmentAcademy of EquipmentBeijingChina

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