# lowest satellite orbiting the moon

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 25, 2016, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lowest-satellite-orbiting-the-moon/753102 "2016-04-25T17:27:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![tallcoldone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9a140/32.png) [@tallcoldone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tallcoldone)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2016, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lowest-satellite-orbiting-the-moon/753102/21 "2016-04-26T16:34:11Z")

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A bit of a tangent here…

In Arthur C. Clarke’s short story collection “The Wind from the Sun” [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_Wind\_from\_the\_Sun](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wind_from_the_Sun) is a story called “Maelstrom II”. A manned launch from the moon to return to earth has a glitch, and it does not reach escape velocity; the story is about how the guy finds a way to avoid crashing back to the surface.

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