His mind was in the country of orbital mechanics now.
It turns out that we play with orbital mechanics all the time!
However due to orbital mechanics, they would only get data from one part of the Moon.
The view changed, faster than any orbital mechanics would allow.
However, with a little imagination, you can understand the basic idea behind orbital mechanics very easily.
It is a return to his old intellectual passion for the science of orbital mechanics.
I think you may want to hear this directly from our orbital mechanics guy.
A detailed technical treatment of orbital mechanics can be found at this site.
His other best known works also involved orbital mechanics.
He still had only a dim comprehension of orbital mechanics.