Controllers Put Old Satellite In Earth-Moon L2 Orbit
Credit: Nasa/GSFC
A team of U.S. spacecraft controllers is maintaining an old Earth-science satellite in a precarious orbit around the second Earth-Moon Lagrangian point (L2), and has another en route to Lunar L1 between the Earth and the Moon in the first-ever use of the imaginary points where the gravity of the Sun...
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