MEANING
An artificial satellite that uses solar-sail pressure to balance solar gravity and hover without orbiting.
Use it for
A proposed satellite that hovers by balancing solar gravity with light pressure.Use for a spacecraft that holds position relative to the Sun with a solar sail rather than a conventional orbit.
On the page
The statite waited motionless above the system’s orbital plane until the interstellar object appeared.
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- Base
- statite
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