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_dain_ 5 hours ago

Stationkeeping would be a problem. And difficult to stop it precessing away from the rotation axis you want.

schiffern 3 hours ago | parent [-]

An array of steerable ion engines hanging below the station (ie on the edge not in the center) can provide both reboots / stationkeeping and precess the axis, eg once per year to track the Sun.

Because trig, by "mixing" both maneuvers together it uses less propellant vs doing the two maneuvers separately.