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szpaceSZ t1_it7pkcs wrote

Reply to comment by _hester_ in China looked at putting a monitoring satellite in retrograde geostationary orbit via the moon by OkOrdinary5299

> geostationary and geosynchronous

But exactly because even these are not considered the same you can't call a retrograde one with the same orbital distance either.

Those differ from each other by inclination and eccentricity.

And geostationary is the one specific geosynánc orbit with inclination 0, and e = 0. By definition.

Retrograde has inclination 180°.

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