u/etergrim

Based on this passage in the Children of Time:

>!It was a web. It was as though some unthinkable horror had begun the job of cocooning the planet before it fed on it. It was a single vast web in geostationary orbit about the planet, and Kern’s metal home was just one pinpoint within its myriad complexity.!<

It would seem that Kern’s satellite is described here as being in geostationary orbit. However, that is highly unlikely, since the Great Nest’s perspective had already established that the satellite repeatedly passes over different parts of the planet rather than remaining "fixed" above a single point. I’d say a polar, or at least highly inclined, orbit is more likely.