Why we cant “park” satellites and space station in Lagrange points, to avoid drag?
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How would you get them there? Lagrange points are a long way out–the nearest one to Earth in the Earth-Moon system in the L1 point, which is 320,000km up, a *long* way higher than even geostationary orbit. And there’s the problem there that the L1 point isn’t actually stable–any spacecraft put there would still need station keeping thrusters of some kind to keep it there (even if you put it in a Lissajous orbit around the point, which is what usually happens). A stable Lagrange point would be even further out and require even more fuel to get there.
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