Is it possible to have space station around Moon

[Quirk]

For moon related activities and launching missions in asteroids or planets even telescope etc

 

[Wolfshadw]

While certainly possible, maintenance, resupply missions, and crew rotation would be prohibitively expensive. Think of the infrastructure we have here on Earth in support of the ISS. In order to support a space station in Lunar orbit, you'd need to duplicate that infrastructure on the Moon.

My opinion, anyway.

-Wolf sends

 

[Pogo]

There actually has been talk of a space station in a lunar orbit. Due to a number of mass concentrations (Mascons) below the lunar surface, many orbits would not be stable. But, there are some orbit orientations that seem to be stable on the order of years. It has been speculated that the lunar ascent module of Apollo 11 may still be in orbit as they have not yet identified any crash site attributed to it. But in the very long term, centuries or millennia, no orbit is probably stable. We have never found a natural moon of a moon thus far.

 

[Quirk]

While certainly possible, maintenance, resupply missions, and crew rotation would be prohibitively expensive. Think of the infrastructure we have here on Earth in support of the ISS. In order to support a space station in Lunar orbit, you'd need to duplicate that infrastructure on the Moon.

My opinion, anyway.

-Wolf sends

Alternatively we could use this platform to launch telescopes on passing asteroid !!
As asteroids criss cross the Milky Way we could be near the stars like Proxima Centauri which is just four light years away by means of asteroid with telescope installed !!!!
Besides might even find the nearest black hole etc

 

[Quirk]

There actually has been talk of a space station in a lunar orbit. Due to a number of mass concentrations (Mascons) below the lunar surface, many orbits would not be stable. But, there are some orbit orientations that seem to be stable on the order of years. It has been speculated that the lunar ascent module of Apollo 11 may still be in orbit as they have not yet identified any crash site attributed to it. But in the very long term, centuries or millennia, no orbit is probably stable. We have never found a natural moon of a moon thus far.

I don’t think we have made full use of ISS orbiting earth - though there was talk of growing crystals in zero gravity !!!

moon offers lot many prospects as mining or even tracing the past of its formation etc besides we need to have telescopes at as many strategic orbits as possible in solar system and beyond to uncover secrets of dark energy black holes etc

 

[OrionVII]

I think that having a space station around the moon would be beneficial, but it would be better if we had space stations coupled together in a way. If we had space stations that could launch space craft to the next, we could create a space elevator type system, with each using inertia to launch the craft at a faster speed therefore allowing it to travel farther. That would allow us to move faster between stations, and farther, after exiting the last space station. Eventually we could launch craft far enough to reach a Lagrange point or, as Buzz Aldrin proposed, A cycling spacecraft. That would allow us to launch lighter spacecraft, therefore conserving fuel and using gravity to boost it along, as we have in the past with the Voyager spacecraft and the New Horizons probe.

 

[Pogo]

The higher the orbit, the slower the orbital speed. The fastest orbital speed would be just high enough to miss the highest elevations. Launch from the lowest orbit would be most beneficial, given you launch in the right direction.

 

[OrionVII]

The higher the orbit, the slower the orbital speed. The fastest orbital speed would be just high enough to miss the highest elevations. Launch from the lowest orbit would be most beneficial, given you launch in the right direction.

True.