March 2017
Twinkle - a mission to unravel the story of planets in our galaxy
...albedo and detect clouds. ARIEL will be placed in orbit at Lagrange Point 2, where the spacecraft is shielded from the Sun and has ... that Twinkle may be able to obtain a handful of data points in the infrared for small, rocky planets. This means that ...
January 2019
Preparing for a robotic revolution in Earth orbit
...arms are frequently used to guide them to their grasping points, but they are equally useful for sending imagery of ...could be located at a logical intermediate orbit such as a Lagrange point. Preparing to correct a deployment anomaly (left) and (...
May 2022
Essential guide to the James Webb Space Telescope
..., some four times the distance between the Earth and the Moon, at a reasonably gravitationally stable point known as Lagrange Point 2 (L2). Thanks to an extra gravitational boost from Earth, objects placed at L2 take the same amount of time to orbit...
February 2021
Space archaeology - preserving our orbital heritage
...result in the inability of the telescope to be accurately pointed and lock onto new targets. Thomas Brown of the...Others suggested that once JWST is operational at the L2 Lagrange point, the options for repair or any further physical interaction become...
January 2020
Small body missions unveil interplanetary secrets
... Lucy mission will visit six small bodies trapped at the Jovian Lagrange points 4 and 5. Processes in an evolving solar system One of ...throw these objects either inward or outward, even to the point of ejecting them from the solar system. We now know ...
May 2020
Protecting areas of scientific importance on the Moon
...and identify all lunar devices. The far side could be monitored either from lunar orbit or from Lagrange point 2. However, unlike their terrestrial counterparts, their Automatic Identification Systems (AISs) would need to be passive devices - perhaps...
