Why we cant “park” satellites and space station in Lagrange points, to avoid drag?
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In addition to everyone else’s answers: we can and do … but bear in mind that the Lagrange points are POINTS, not parking garages. L4 & L5 are stable points, so there’s stable orbits around them possible (weird as that may sound), but not unboundedly many; sooner or later you’ll run out of room.
–Dave, and then you start welding all the stuff that’s there together, and you make a space station…
ps: there are actual small fleets of asteroids in the Lagrange points for Jupiter around the Sun, 1/6th of its orbit ahead of and behind it. They’re called the “Trojan asteroids”. I’m not actually sure if we’ve found anything sitting in the Earth-Sun L4 & L5 points.
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