On 02Nov2017 1026, C. Berry wrote:

> You'd probably want to leave the ship slowly rotating, to heat it evenly
> (time-averaged). You'd want the axis of rotation perpendicular to the
> incident starlight, which would require active adjustments to maintain
> over the course of an orbit around the star. I imagine a tug visiting
> every few months to do this to all the ships in a given boneyard. The
> tug crews might call it a torque tour.

Just have the orbit on the ecliptic, and the ship's axis of spin aligned
towards the system's north/south poles. Also, you might want to spin the
ship fairly quickly, to reduce the amount of heating and cooling it
experiences.

--
Rupert Boleyn <xxxxxx@gmail.com>
Chief Assistant to the Assistant Chief