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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Yes, that was very weird. Unless, perhaps, they needed a very low orbit for transporters to work? (I know, I'm trying to justify a plot device with hand-waving talk about another plot device.)
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To hand wave your hand waving...
... but the transports work at any time. This means they either work over a great enough range that the ship can be in orbit on the opposite side of the planet or that the ship is in Clark orbit (I think geostationary should only refer to Gaia/Earth). If the planet has adequate mass (a given since all planets they transport down to have near Earth-like gravity) such orbits are rather large and if the atmosphere extended out that far, in order to degrade an obit, the pressure at the planet's surface would be too extreme for the away team to survive.