Also, an associate professor of aerospace engineering at the University of Texas has confirmed my initial post: it's simply not possible. An orbit at 300miles moves far too fast to light up a city for any appreciable length of time, and a geosynchronous orbit is too far away to light up anything.
Thanks for that, it's been a while since I've heard such nonsense from a professor of hard science.
The article I read implied you could hover a satellite over a particular city, which of course is not possible.
I'd very much like to see this article. No article I've read on the subject says any such thing.
At a distance of just 300 miles the moon would whip around the Earth at thousands of miles per hour, beaming its light on any one place for only a fraction of a second.
Yeah, that's why the Hubble telescope pictures were all blurry until they realised how easy it is to adjust the satellite's rotation speed to track a moving target.