how can satellites and space ships stay orbiting around the Earth if our planet is moving at very high speeds across the universe?

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how can satellites and space ships stay orbiting around the Earth if our planet is moving at very high speeds across the universe?

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If you have an ant on your arm walking around, and you are walking, on a bus, which is driving at 50 kilometers per hour, which is on the earth moving at over 1000 kilometers per hour… the ant is just going to stay on your arm. Because to the ant, your arm is stationary.

It’s the same thing, the motion is relative to the next higher thing it’s attached to. The moon travels around the earth which travels around the sun which travels around the galaxy. But to the moon, everything else is stationary.