NASA’s bet on Starship for the Moon

Re:NASA’s bet on Starship for the Moon by jandrese on Friday April 23, 2021 @05:52PM (#26919649)

Doesn't the moon rotate too slowly to make a space elevator work? IIRC you can't take up a ground-stationary orbit around the Moon because the Earth would constantly knock your satellite around with its big gravity well.

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Re:NASA’s bet on Starship for the Moon by zardo on Friday April 23, 2021 @06:42PM (#26920099)

You can have a ground stationary satellite if you tether it to the moon. Though obviously the tether has to deal with that extra load.

The best sites for permanent outposts are the poles though, it would be quite a drive from the equator.

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Re:NASA’s bet on Starship for the Moon by inglor_cz on Friday April 23, 2021 @06:04PM (#26919741)

I think this is where the Lagrange points L1 and L2 would help.

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