What is the lowest possible orbit around the moon (Luna)?

@W1ll1amTr1stan Those pesky mountains are always getting in the way 😂

@W1ll1amTr1stan then it crashed on a mountain 😂

Since the lunar surface isn't very flat and the sea level may be below ground level,it depends. Lowest I got was 200m ASL.

@N0tLogan earth IRL. Since Droo is just a smaller version of earth, it should be pretty similar(I'm not exactly sure what the total difference in elevation is for Droo, but I know it's about 1/5 the size of earth, and Luna is roughly proportional, so that's where my numbers came from)

@Vedhaspace 😂😂

Well i orbited Luna like 1.1km very close to yours lol
Done it by launching from the Luna base
But that's definitely not a safe orbit I think it only lasted like 3 to 5 orbits as my craft crashed into a mountain in Luna 🤣

@YaMomzBox420 by “earth” do you mean real life Earth or Droo?

Not sure why everyone has such large numbers. 2-3 km should be more than enough unless your orbit just so happens to pass over the highest point on the moon. The highest point on Earth's surface is only about 11 km above Sea level, so I would expect the highest point on Luna(a much smaller moon with a relatively flatter surface from cratering) to be around 5km above the average surface level or 10 km above the lowest elevation

you can make it to 100 - 50 kilometers, or 10 if you’re lucky

@N0tLogan that sounds about right. Theoretically you could orbit at only a few feet off the ground, but to safely orbit, it takes a few hundred to a thousand meters average altitude to make sure you don't crash into something like a mountain or crater rim