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Scenario: An orbiting station or habitat. A small vessel wishes to leave and return to the planet's surface. Initial assumptions: The habitat rotates to produce 1g acceleration for inhabitants. The rotation axis of the planet and habitat are parallel. The habitat orbits on the equatorial plane...

I am imagining a stable orbit pattern something like this. The large object might be a plant (as labelled) or a star. The small object might be a space craft (as labelled) or a natural satellite. The orbiting object makes an almost complete orbit at highspeed near the closest point and then...

Hello to all the lovely wonderful people here on the orbiter forum. I have some (limited?) understanding of physics from my training as a mechanical engineer, though I have become a bit rusty after 15 years in technical sales. Currently, I am writing a sci-fi novel (several in parallel in...