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A Tour Of The Lagrange Points. Part 2 - Space Telescopes At L2 And Nothing At L3

Fraser Cain
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Lagrange Points. Stable spots in space that you just can’t stop thinking about. What spacecraft work best in which places? What are some amazing ideas that could utilize these regions across the Solar System? In the last episode, I gave an overview of the Lagrange points, and then went into the details of spacecraft missions sent to L1, the perfect place to constantly observe the Sun, the Earth, or to block radiation coming from the Sun. The best place for a lunar elevator, or a spot to put a space station at the Moon. This week, we’re going to talk about L2 and L3, the other meta-unstable spots that you can park a spacecraft at. Our Book is out! https://www.amazon.com/Universe-Today... Audio Podcast version: ITunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/u... RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/audio What Fraser's Watching Playlist:    • What Fraser's watching   Weekly email newsletter: https://www.universetoday.com/newsletter Weekly Space H …...more
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A Tour Of The Lagrange Points. Part 2 - Space Telescopes At L2 And Nothing At L3
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2019Sep 3
Lagrange Points. Stable spots in space that you just can’t stop thinking about. What spacecraft work best in which places? What are some amazing ideas that could utilize these regions across the Solar System? In the last episode, I gave an overview of the Lagrange points, and then went into the details of spacecraft missions sent to L1, the perfect place to constantly observe the Sun, the Earth, or to block radiation coming from the Sun. The best place for a lunar elevator, or a spot to put a space station at the Moon. This week, we’re going to talk about L2 and L3, the other meta-unstable spots that you can park a spacecraft at. Our Book is out! https://www.amazon.com/Universe-Today... Audio Podcast version: ITunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/u... RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/audio What Fraser's Watching Playlist:    • What Fraser's watching   Weekly email newsletter: https://www.universetoday.com/newsletter Weekly Space Hangout:    / @weeklyspacehangout   Astronomy Cast:    / @astronomycast   Support us at:   / universetoday   More stories at: http://www.universetoday.com/ Twitch:   / fcain   Follow us on Twitter: @universetoday Like us on Facebook:   / universetoday   Instagram -   / universetoday   Team: Fraser Cain - @fcain / frasercain@gmail.com Karla Thompson - @karlaii /    / @karlathompson001   Chad Weber - weber.chad@gmail.com References:    • A Tour Of The Lagrange Points. Part 1...   https://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/mission/obs... https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-... https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/st... https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/st...    • Project Dragonfly. A Laser-Powered Pr...   https://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/ https://wind.nasa.gov/ http://sci.esa.int/herschel/ https://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Sp... https://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Sp... http://sci.esa.int/gaia/    • Thanks To Gaia We Now Know Exactly Wh...   http://www.russianspaceweb.com/spektr... https://www.bbc.com/news/science-envi... https://www.theatlantic.com/science/a... https://www.jwst.nasa.gov/ http://sci.esa.int/euclid/ https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/... http://sci.esa.int/plato/    • The New Planet Hunters. Who Will Find...      • Catching The Next Interstellar Astero...   http://sci.esa.int/athena/ https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/12... https://www.universetoday.com/142896/...    • What's So Special About The Moon’s So...  

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Fraser Cain

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