06 November 2020
The Moon could have a long-lost "twin" in orbit around Mars
... and Neptune within gravitational “safe havens” known as Lagrange points. Scientists think that the Trojans may have attached themselves...Solar System. Whats more, all of the Trojans in a Lagrange 5 (L5) orbit around Mars have the same ancestry and ...
July 2020
Are we entering a post-Overview Effect era?
... movement. Jeff Bezos has announced his intention to realise Gerard K O’Neill’s vision of large space settlements located at Lagrange Point L5. This quest for the ‘meaning’ of spaceflight reached a peak with the famous Earthrise photo that was...
January 2021
Taking out the trash in space
... enable potential future missions by providing yearly station keeping at an Earth-Moon Lagrange point, providing enough CH4 to send one 200 kg payload from a Lagrange point to the lunar surface each year, or potentially providing course corrections...
19 October 2020
Astronomers identify a true water-world that could have an ocean over 100 kms deep
...orbital worlds around LHS1140b, there were signs of one around its smaller neighbour LHS1140c at its Lagrange point L4. Lagrange Points are positions in space where the gravitational forces of a two body system produce enhanced regions of attraction...
June 2018
Space 2080 a future perspective
... before the quark telescope is put into operation near the Lagrange point 5, in the wake of Earth. But everyone has in... ‘deterrence by dependence’ struggled at first to make their point. The aim was to render obsolete the race for technologies ...
February 2019
The Space Elevator – an alternative path to space?
... structure around an equilibrium of acceleration. This can happen in a stationary orbit around a rotating celestial body or a Lagrange point. Geosynchronous equatorial or geostationary orbit (GEO), offers such an equilibrium for Earth. A body such...
