Oolite Bulletins

Ahruman wrote:

ovvldc wrote:

It would be a great place to put a energy collector satellite in geostationary orbit .

How exactly do you plan to achieve geostationary orbit around a tidally locked planet? That would require using either active stationkeeping or a Lagrange point, either of which you can do regardless of the planet’s rotation.

Good point. A Geostationary orbit around a tidally locked planet would put you in collision with whatever it was the planet was orbiting, not counting the gravitational influence of said 'whatever'.

Lagrange point would be more useful in that case though, since the same face of the planet would be pointing towards you at all times. Good for 'line of sight' energy transmission, assuming that's how these things work.

Cheers,

Drew.