Lagrange points are gravitationally balanced locations where spacecraft can perform their missions. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

Paul M. Sutter is an astrophysicist at The Ohio State University, host of "Ask a Spaceman" and "Space Radio," and author of "Your Place in the Universe" (Prometheus Books, 2018). Sutter contributed ...

"In RTBP systems, Lagrange points between the two celestial bodies provide specific locations around which a spacecraft can orbit," explains Mingpei Lin, a member of an AIMR research team. "The ...

"The ability to model how complex orbits—such as halo, and quasi-halo orbits—emerge around the unstable collinear Lagrange points enables better trajectory design using these points." However, a ...