Controllers Ease Spacecraft Into Lunar L2 Orbit
A team of U.S. spacecraft controllers has parked an old Earth-science satellite in a precarious orbit around the second Earth-Moon Lagrangian point (L2), making the first-ever use of the point in space where the gravity of the Sun, Earth and Moon are in balance set up an entirely new science mission...
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