August 2019
Lessons from the Sun
... of two possible future space weather missions, positioning spacecraft in orbit at the Sun-Earth L1 and L5 Lagrange points. About the author Dr Delores Knipp is a Research Professor at University of Colorado (CU), Boulder and at CU’s Space Weather...
August 2020
Scorpion – a study of the possible
... near-Earth space. The Scorpion can deliver over 500 tonnes to geostationary orbit or the Earth/Moon Lagrange points on each mission and, in addition to the payload, it also delivers the crew and equipment that allows assembly...
01 December 2015
LISA Pathfinder set for liftoff
...as possible in order to conduct its experiments. Accordingly LISA Pathfinder is heading for an orbit around the L1 Lagrange point, a gravitationally-stable location 930,000 miles (1.5 million kilometres), from Earth in a sunward direction. Once there...
19 February 2016
Test Masses of ESA's LISA Pathfinder Released Successfully
... masses, each weighing 1.96 kilograms and changes in distance of these test masses to the spacecraft. Now in orbit around Lagrange point L1, 1.5 million km away from Earth, the two test masses have been released from a grabbing, positioning and...
07 June 2016
A green light for the LISA Pathfinder mission
...LISA Pathfinder is stationed at a stable orbit between the Earth and the Sun at a location called the first Lagrange point, at a distance of 1.5 million kilometres away. Launched in December 2015, and with its start of science operations on 1st March...
27 January 2020
US bill spurns Moon programme favouring Mars instead
... new bill. Instead of a lunar Gateway, the bill advocates the requirement of a “Gateway to Mars” in cislunar space or at a Lagrange point. The martian Gateway, that specifically “shall not be required for the conduct of human lunar landing missions...
