November 2025
Vantage Vigil - Europe’s first operational space weather mission nears approval
... to launch its most ambitious space weather mission yet. Vigil will monitor space weather from the Lagrange Point L5 and promises to revolutionise how we detect, respond to and enhance global resilience in the face of increasingly volatile space...
29 December 2021
Success so far means JWST has enough fuel to extend its science lifetime, NASA say
...away from our planet at a point known as L2. L2 is short hand for the second Lagrange point; one of five so-called areas... – small thruster burns to adjust JWST’s orbit; pointing the telescope toward science targets; and momentum management, which...
21 June 2019
ESA's new mission to intercept a comet
... Its three spacecraft will perform simultaneous observations from multiple points around the comet, creating a 3D profile of a ... in the launcher and the boost to the Sun-Earth Lagrange point L2, which is 1.5 million kilometres ‘behind’ Earth as viewed...
02 December 2019
Chang'e 4 relay satellite now a radio telescope
... blocked by the Earth’s atmosphere. However, after launch Queqiao/NCLE was put into an Earth-Moon Lagrange 2 (L2) halo orbit, a point about 450,000 kilometers away from Earth on the lunar farside and as this location is far...
October 2021
A US space strategy for 2050: shaping a domain on the cusp
... term, should develop infrastructure at the Earth-Moon Lagrange Points. The mind is the limiting factor in conceptualising future uses for these points, but, for now, the Earth-Moon Lagrange points are best suited to communications relay and SSA...
June 2020
Saving Earth – time for a new cooperative framework
... launched once one’s shields are down! Conceptual model (top) of an artificial magneto-shield, which could be deployed at Lagrange Point L-1, developed by NASA Chief Scientist, Dr Jim Green and colleagues. Such a system could also help to prevent the...
