X-Nico

unusual facts about Lagrange Point



Joint Dark Energy Mission

This would be a 1.5-metre telescope with a 144-megapixel HgCdTe focal plane array, located at the L2 Lagrange point; the expected cost is around $1.6 billion.

Orion Lite

The intention of designing Orion Lite would be to provide a stripped down version of the Orion that will be available for missions to the International Space Station earlier than the more capable Orion, which is designed for longer duration missions to the Moon, Mars, Lagrange points, and Near Earth asteroids.

Sortie

In spaceflight, especially for NASA's Constellation Program, the term sortie has been used for a flight of the Orion spacecraft beyond the confluence of low-Earth orbit, such as a flight to the Moon or to the Sun-Earth L2 Lagrange Point.


see also

The Third Millennium: A History of the World AD 2000-3000

L5 (Lagrange Point) space colonies such as those proposed by Scientist Gerard K. O'Neill.