The Empire ships are in stable orbit, but keeping their distance.
They still read stable orbit with all systems going.
I'm missing something because the way I read it says we could generate heat from a stable orbit and that sounds like free energy.
It would be too hard to find a stable orbit.
He was bored with having nothing to do so long as the ship stayed in a stable orbit.
We continue to hold a stable orbit around the dead, uninhabited planet.
So, you can have a stable orbit around one of the stars basically ignoring the other.
Previous predictions portrayed the system's stable orbit as likely to last for another seven million years.
However, where the separation is significantly less, a stable orbit may be impossible.
Given the under-burn, the two most likely did not reach a stable orbit.