Talk:Orbital station-keeping
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This page should be combined with 'station keeping', but I don't know the process to use to suggest and implement this. Andrew8
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[edit] Post-merge talk migration from Talk:Station keeping
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[edit] Cleanup
I cleaned up the paragraph breaks and did a little bit of copy editing. No content was changed in any of that. I also removed an irrelevant reference to Arthur C. Clarke for two reasons: 1. A reader who did not know that Clarke lives in Sri Lanka would have no idea at all why he's mentioned here; such a reader might speculate that Clarke wrote something about the stable point above Sri Lanka instead. 2. Clarke's residence in Sri Lanka has nothing to do with the stable point, or station keeping in general. If I am wrong and it does, please restore the Clarke reference with an explanation of that relevance.
[edit] What exactly is the Tennis Ball Effect?
Is this a slang term, something made up, or is it for real? Is there a tecnical term that could be substituted here, an explanation tendered, or an article written to explain the "Tennis Ball Effect"?
- Now removed, but I understand it refers to the path a satellite takes following North-south drift and some east-west drift if all remain uncorrected. If east-west systemic drift is eliminated, satellites follow a figure-of-eight path (with the remaining east-west drift being a time of day phenomenon). If there is more systematic east-west drift, the path becomes more swirly, like the join line on a tennis ball. Not a known scientific term but descriptive. Martin 17:07, 19 December 2007 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mpurdy (talk • contribs)
[edit] Cleaned up
I cleaned this up based on 3-4 different sources, one of which looked clean enough to be citable. Having checked up in a number of places, I've not seen any further references to the tennis ball manoeuvre, but stand willing to be corrected on it. Could use linkage to some decent pictures on the various planes, etc.
[edit] Merge proposal
The "Orbital stationkeeping" should probably be merged into this one, but I do not know the process by which that should be recommended or implemented. Andrew8
- New discussion goes at the bottom. Thanks. –EdC 06:49, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
- Added merge tags to both articles. –EdC 06:49, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
Given the existence of the nautical term might be better to have articles at orbital stationkeeping and nautical stationkeeping, and have this as a dab page. –EdC 22:34, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
- I've done the latter. –EdC 23:16, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] stationkeeping vs station keeping vs station-keeping
Which one is it? Stationkeeping is not in the dictionary. I suggest rename. Objections? Javit 18:48, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
- Which dictionary, and to what? –EdC 20:27, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
- Meriam-Webster. Should be station-keeping according to Spacecraft System Engineering Ed. Graham Swinerd et al. WILEY. I will go ahead with it. Javit 20:35, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] GEO Station Keeping
This section seems like it repeats itself. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jdkessler (talk • contribs) 14:42, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
