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...
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 (...
