re: Lunar orbit satelites

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Arthur Smith — 1/20/2004 4:34:28 PM (archived)

High-altitude orbits (1000 km to about 20,000 km, if memory serves) around the Moon should be stable for decades. Near the Moon the problem are gravitational irregularities (it's not a sphere); farther away, the pull of Earth and Sun cause trouble. So a lunar GPS system should work fine.

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- Lunar orbit satelites - Buck Galaxy - 1/19/2004 7:10:19 PM
  - re: Lunar orbit satelites - Arthur Smith - 1/20/2004 4:34:28 PM
  - That's right and - SteveS - 1/20/2004 4:44:42 AM
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