Monday, October 29, 2018

Lagrange point stations?

Well, it seems that a sixty year old theory that dust gathers at Lagrange points is true.

There are two Lagrange (or trojan) points between the Earth and the Moon. L4 and L5. They are important because you could in theory park a satellite or station there with minimal fuel.

However, it might face a problem. L5 is confirmed to have something called a Kordylewski cloud. L4 probably does too. These clouds of dust gathered at the Lagrange points could cause problems for the hulls and, above all, the solar panels of spacecraft positioned there. We may need to design technology to repel the dust before we can actually use the potential of Lagrange points.

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