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A challenge there is that there are very few stable lunar orbits! High orbits are perturbed by Earth's gravity (3-body problem) and low lunar orbits are perturbed by the lumpy distribution of mass in the Moon's interior [0]. Lunar GNSS satellites with a little bit of onboard propulsion could probably correct for some of these perturbations but once they ran out of fuel they would have a limited orbital lifetime.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_orbit#Perturbation_effec...

parent thatcherc 1 year ago

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