A different kind of SBSP

--- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, "brooksn" wrote:
> We're at 3 times the altitude of the ISS

...Which has a greater sectional density and, despite that, still needs to be boosted periodically.

> the thin material used is similar to that used by a japanese solar sail spacecraft.

Perhaps it would be better not to be in orbit at all, and simply sail at stationary latitudes. The wind would still blow the sails sunward at the 6AM side of the planet, and cosmosward at the 6PM side of the planet.