Timeline for Can a satellite orbit Earth so that it always has the Moon in line of sight?
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| Oct 21, 2014 at 1:24 | comment | added | Caleb Hines | While not directly specified in the question, it appears the OP had in mind a considerably lower altitude orbit than 4 or 5 would admit, as in his EDIT, he clarifies: "...such a polar Earth satellite would have a relatively small altitude...". By Kepler's law, any satellite fully synchronous with the moon must have a semi-major axis equal to the moon's, which would hardly qualify as low-altitude (excepting L1 & L2 which arise from the more complex n-body problem). | |
| Oct 21, 2014 at 0:46 | history | answered | geometrian | CC BY-SA 3.0 |