It's not an answer to your question but there are indeed ways to utilize interaction of Earth's magnetic field with spacecrafts. Power production (or thrust if

It's not an answer to your question but there are indeed ways to utilize interaction of Earth's magnetic field with spacecrafts. Power production (or thrust if reversing the process by feeding a current into the wire) is described in [0]. Use for stabilization and attitude control is described in [1]. These might be combined with [2], which have more immediate effect but from time to time need to be 'desaturated' which is where [1] comes in again. [0] https://pwg.gsfc.nasa.gov/Education/wtether.html https://pwg.gsfc.nasa.gov/Education/wtether.html [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetorquer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetorquer [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reaction_wheel#Implementation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reaction_wheel#Implementation