Biosuit for the soul/consciousness inside them?

Only thing I was trying to say to you was that the article from spacenews about the chinese paper was describing an orbit different than you were talking about.

I understood you about the drifting around the main geo belt satelites thing. "the ring" is me using bad terminology for the ring of satellites orbiting the earth, circular, at whatever it is, 42km or whatnot, over the equator, sorry to confuse. Note that those are pro-grade (spinning with the rotation of the earth) and that the Chinese article was talking about going the opposite direction (spining against the rotation of the earth).

It is possible to orbit the earth any way you want as long as you are not too high or low from the earth to get influenced by the atmosphere or the moon or whatever.

You sound like you are into the subject and did great describing things by the way! Sorry about the miscommunication Aceticon...

I understand what you mean about drifting above or below the ring but it would still be going pro-grade with respect to the spin of the earth.

Definitely the paper is saying this proposed satellite would be retro-grade. That would reduce visit times for spying on other satellites and other less nice things.

It's retro grade. They are talking about using the moon for a gravity assist to do it in the paper.