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MercTech -> RE: "Surviving The Singularity" Test (for geeks) (12/14/2012 10:06:37 AM)
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Hmmm, I would think Johannes Kepler would be the one to be considered the inventor of the geosynchronous satellite as he created the mathematics to describe orbital mechanics.
But, I will acknowledge that Clark was the first to use the concept in popular literature.
If you really want to sprain your brain, look at the dynamics of five body stable orbits... "Kepler Rosette". Think five planets orbiting an empty center.. complicated but should be stable if you could set it up.
LaGrange should get some credit too. His showing where the zero stress points around a larger body's orbit have lead to so many stories about space stations. (If you don't put your station on a LaGrange point, you will continuously have to burn fuel to keep tidal forces from ruining your orbit and sending the station crashing or flying to the big black.)
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