Long range networks -- draft

No, I meant Kerbin.

Take the Mun or Minmus as an example. I could set up a relay in a circular polar orbit so that, as it orbits, it is always facing Kerbin (i.e. the normal to the orbital plane is always pointing at Kerbin) and never blacks out. However, as the moon orbits around Kerbin, the relative position of my relay's orbit changes with regard to Kerbin, and after a quarter of an orbit Kerbin will now be aligned with the orbital plane and I get a signal blackout with every orbit.