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I don't think you understand what geostationary orbit is. They all have to be going the same direction (with the Earth's rotation) or else it isn't stationary (
by msandford 3y ago
I don't think you understand what geostationary orbit is. They all have to be going the same direction (with the Earth's rotation) or else it isn't stationary (not moving) over the geo (earth).
As a result I think you're misunderstanding what the orbital dynamics would be.
- krisoft 3y ago> I don't think you understand what geostationary orbit is. I do understand what geostationary orbit is. The commenter I was responding to said "any other satellite who is travelling from one orbit to the other can stop off on-route for no fuel or time cost". If they wanted to only talk about geo sats they should have said that. But sure, let's think about using a geo sat to fly this intercept. Let's just pick Echostar-8 as a concrete example. It is at 6.4 degree inclination while Echostart-7 is at 1.5 degree. So you will at best have a glancing blow between these two.