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Airless body landing inclination


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In order the reach a specific landing site from orbit, the landing site must pass through your orbital plane.  This will happen as long as the inclination of your orbit is equal to or greater than the latitude of the landing site.  If your orbital inclination is less than the landing site latitude, then you can't get there form here.

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Adding to that: You would need to match the inclination to make your orbital plane cross the target landing site, taking the rotation of the body into account. So your target orbit will need to 'lead' the landing site by a little, otherwise you won't be overhead when the body you're orbiting rotates underneath you.

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