How did a new satellites get in the right position?

Well, you are incorrect. The big bang is not an explosian, it is an 'expansion'.

It's really not, though. The two models are very, very different from each other. Try readong something that's not
a) more than 10 years old. Cosmology has progressed a bit in the bast decade.
b) designed for the average joe. Many popular "science" books are dumbed down for general consumption, much like the simplified documentaries you see on TV. Wrong. As already noted, the balloon model was an oversimplification I used exclusively to draw a distinction between expansion and explosion. There are many other forces at work in the real universe beyond just the expansion of space. Gravity would be a pretty big one, and it makes sure those particles don't just move in straight lines away from each other. As has already been mentioned, the speed required for red shift is entirely dependant on your frame of reference. The entirety of space is expanding, which creates a much different model than the "zomg it blew up" version you're using. It does no such thing. Also, as has been mentioned, an evenly expanding space will make it appear that two objects actually accelerate away from each other, not merely moving at a set speed. Again, you're trying to use an "explosion" model becasue that's what the Big Bang is typically described as to the general public. That's the dumbed down version, and is only a weak analogy to the Big Bang so that you don't need a degree in astrophysics to get the basic idea.

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Every time a fundy breaks the laws of thermodynamics, Schroedinger probably kills his cat.

is the expansion of space itself observable to us, via calculation of the distance from the earth to sun or maybe the sun to Uranus, or are these distances relatively too small to notice the expansion within our lifetimes. is there any kind of assumptions about the rate of expansion per 100,000 million miles?Thanks
louie

From what I understand, those distances are too small, and gravity is holding the bodies in our solar system together anyway.The expansion is observed in the redshift of very distant stars, and the fact that the further distant the star, the more intense the redshift (so the more space is between two object, the more space is seen to expand. Like the balloon example above, two dots close together on an expanding balloon will move apart more slowly than two dots farther apart, because every square inch of the surface is expanding at the same time.

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Every time a fundy breaks the laws of thermodynamics, Schroedinger probably kills his cat.

thank you for the timely response, I feel that i have a good grasp on what is occurring, or we assume is occurring, as we know an increase in knowledge can always change what we feel to be fact. i was definitely mainly wondering if there was some type of scale i could use even for my own purpose to simplify the extent of the expansion.intriguing to me nonetheless.thanks again