I decided to highlight this, because it is an example of Bjarne's dishonest way of arguing.
The link refers to the so-called fly-by anomaly. What has happened a couple of times is that space probes making a close pass of Earth (to gain speed), they have achieved a very tiny amount extra speed. We are talking about 4mm/s for a probe moving at some 40km/s!
Now comes the bizarre thing: Bjarne claims that science does not know that rotation transfers energy, but the same scientists did measure the tiny fly-by anomaly. How will Bjarne explain that the same scientists somehow have not noticed a similar effect in the thousands of satellites orbiting Earth?
Hans
Because the holy tidal effect "sect" have taken ALL the honor for the rotation change of the Earth and that the moon is pushed away...
A little parts of that is due to the interaction between the SW (spacewind) and RR (relativistic resistance) .
The Moon is due to the tidal effect moving 38 mm away from the Earth every year.
As a side effect the rotation of the Earth's is slowing at a rate of 2.2 seconds per 100.000 years.
This mean the rotation at the surface (by the equator) of the Earth after 100.000 years is 1014 meter slower per 24 hour than today.
Due to the direct influence of RR the Earth rotation is losing 7.61*10-13 meter per second. After 100.000 years this is only 2.4 meter slower after 100,000 years (per 24 hours).
Due to indirect influence (the opposite SW influence) kinetic rotation energy of the Earth is also lost due to kinetic energy transfer used to push the moon further away from the Earth and to counteract the influence of RR of the Moons orbit velocity.
Based on the calculation here
http://www.science27.com/english/MoonEarth-KE.htm we see that the indirect KE-lost (to maintain the moon against RR ) we can see that this is only about 20 % of the direct KE lost.
So we are speaking about that only a very tiny part of the tidal effect must be caused by an additional reason.
RR will off course affect satellites too.
But these values are
too counteracted by the SW and the tidal effect force.
(The magnitude of the tidal force is partly miscalculated, a small part of these orthodox values is due to SW).
Without the SW and the tidal force clockwise satellites would decelerate, (for example) a Satellite just a little faster as Geostationary Orbit [GEO] (35790 meter) would decelerate 5.26* 10-11 m/s
Retrograde Satellites are still affected (only) by full tidal force (and RR but not due to SW) and is off this reason also not decelerating
When you send probes in huge gravity assist orbit you will use the orbit time to determinate the radius, (based on Keplerian equations) - already here will things go wrong when not all the forces are taken into account.
This leads to that especially elliptical orbits clearly shows something is very wrong. And this is what NASA (almost) has proven..
More reading about Satellites
http://www.science27.com/english/Sattelites.htm