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Finite-time controllers are proposed in this paper for underactuated spacecraft hovering in the absence of the radial or in-track thrust. The indirect method, which is generally adopted to solve the singularity problem in the conventional terminal sliding mode, is modified to ensure the continuity of the high-order time derivative of the sliding surface at the switch points. Rigorous proofs via the...