Did Tom Swift design any special equipment to be used in the construction of his Outpost in Space?
Yes, he did. Tom Swift designed his own version of an EVA unit, as this passage reveals: He now showed Ken the midget one-man rockets that he had designed for the project. Each one had a pair of jointed, robotlike arms, controlled from inside, for handling tools or manipulating objects in space. The crewmen would “fly” around in these midget rockets while constructing the outpost or doing any outside work.” What orbit did Tom’s space station occupy? Interestingly, the orbit of Tom Swift’s space station coincides with the geostationary orbit of many current radio satellites: “Twenty-two thousand miles would be better for broadcasting purposes,” Mr. Swift spoke up. “And the station should be in a path directly above the earth’s equator, I suppose.” “Yes,” said Mr. Bruce. “At that altitude the space station would revolve in its orbit once every twenty-four hours–exactly in time with the earth’s rotation. And above the equator it would remain fixed above the same geographical spot at all
