Skip to content

Unexplainable.net

Watching The World Change

  • The Great Pyramids Built By Aliens Or Egyptians? Ancient Civilizations
  • Witches’ Herbs for Sleep Information and Theories
  • Did the “Christians” Burn Rome? Ancient Civilizations
  • The Aliens Have Nothing To Do Here UFOs and Aliens
  • Zodiac Signs of the Famous , Aries & Taurus Space and Astrology
  • Interesting Headlines in Space & Science ”“ September 2012 Space and Astrology
  • The Killigrews of Falmouth , a Pirating Family Information and Theories
  • Facts About the Woolly Mammoth I Information and Theories

Getting A Space Craft To Stay Still In Space

Posted on March 12, 2004 By jim No Comments on Getting A Space Craft To Stay Still In Space

Space: there’s a whole lot of it.

But if you want a spacecraft to stick around your celestial neighborhood, there are only five places to consider.
Lagrange points are imaginary points in space where objects sent there will stay put. A French-Italian mathematician named Joseph-Louis Lagrange, born in 1736, discovered their existence during his study of planetary physics.

Lagrange believed that in a two-body system, such as the Earth and the Sun, there would be five points nearby where an object could be sent and remain in place.

Lagrange point 1, or L1, is located about 4 times farther from Earth than the moon. Click on the image for a diagram of all five Earth-Sun Lagrange points.

Typically, a spacecraft sent from the Earth into the vacuum of space will continue moving in the direction we send it, unless it’s affected by the gravity of a celestial object, like a star or a planet. Even if we stopped a spacecraft in the middle of space, the gravity of objects around it would eventually pull it in some direction.

Enter Joseph-Louis Lagrange. He theorized that at certain points, the gravity of two bodies would cancel out one another and halt the motion of the spacecraft, keeping it in one spot.

Lagrange was right. And now, NASA is using those points in space as parking spots for spacecraft which are discovering the secrets of the universe.

At Lagrange point 1, about 932,000 miles from Earth and toward the Sun, is SOHO, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory. Launched in 1995, SOHO was designed by NASA and the European Space Agency to study the Sun’s effects on the Earth. Because the spacecraft is not orbiting the Earth, it enjoys an uninterrupted view of the Sun at all times and collects information about the solar wind an hour before it reaches the Earth.

Joseph-Louis Lagrange, 1736-1813, was born in the town of Turin, located in what is now northern Italy. At age 19, Lagrange began his work as professor of mathematics at the Royal Artillery School in Turin.

Lagrange point 2 is located the same distance from the Earth as SOHO, but in the opposite direction. Here, you’ll find WMAP, the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe. The probe, launched two years ago, has taken the most detailed picture of our universe in history. By collecting microwave radiation from over 13 billion light years away, scientists have been able to precisely determine the age of the universe and its components, and produce substantial evidence supporting the Big Bang theory.

Lagrange point 3 is located directly behind the Sun. No missions are planned here because of the difficulties involved in communicating with a spacecraft at this point. Lagrange points 4 and 5 are positioned on the Earth’s orbit, about 92 million miles in front of and behind the planet as it travels around the Sun. Astronomers have proven their existence by discovering large asteroids at the Lagrange points 4 and 5 of the Jupiter-Sun system.

This image, taken by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory at Lagrange point 1, shows the sun as seen through an extreme ultraviolet camera onboard.

To learn more about Lagrange points, visit http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/m_mm/ob_techorbit1.html

NASA’s John F. Kennedy Space Center and Goddard Space Flight Center

Information and Theories

Post navigation

Previous Post: Pizza Banned In Space – Not Good Spacefood
Next Post: Have Extraterrestrials And Aliens Visited The Earth?

Related Posts

  • January 2009 Alerts: Ring of Fire Information and Theories
  • NEW AGE MOVEMENT Notes Information and Theories
  • How to Prepare a Borage Herbal Remedy Information and Theories
  • DBT – Dialectical Behavior Therapy Information and Theories
  • Miley Cyrus’ Music Video for ‘We Can’t Stop’ Comes Complete with Illuminati Symbolism Information and Theories
  • Haunted Houses in Literature: “Fall of the House of Usher” Information and Theories

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Recent Posts

  • The Meat Eater couple arrested for child abuse
  • The Meat-Eater boxer kidnapped and raped a young school Girl
  • Carnist man arrested for 198 years for raping and shooting a woman
  • Mitch McConnell- Eating Cow Corpses
  • Animal Flesh Eater Arrested: Felony Charges Serious Injury To 3 Month Old!

Recent Comments

No comments to show.

Archives

  • January 2021
  • December 2020
  • November 2020
  • October 2020
  • August 2020
  • July 2020
  • May 2020
  • June 2018
  • February 2018
  • July 2016
  • May 2016
  • February 2016
  • September 2015
  • July 2015
  • May 2015
  • April 2015
  • March 2015
  • January 2015
  • December 2014
  • November 2014
  • July 2014
  • March 2014
  • February 2014
  • January 2014
  • December 2013
  • November 2013
  • October 2013
  • September 2013
  • August 2013
  • July 2013
  • June 2013
  • May 2013
  • April 2013
  • March 2013
  • February 2013
  • January 2013
  • December 2012
  • November 2012
  • October 2012
  • September 2012
  • August 2012
  • July 2012
  • June 2012
  • May 2012
  • April 2012
  • March 2012
  • February 2012
  • January 2012
  • December 2011
  • November 2011
  • October 2011
  • September 2011
  • August 2011
  • July 2011
  • June 2011
  • May 2011
  • April 2011
  • March 2011
  • February 2011
  • January 2011
  • December 2010
  • November 2010
  • October 2010
  • September 2010
  • August 2010
  • July 2010
  • June 2010
  • May 2010
  • April 2010
  • March 2010
  • February 2010
  • January 2010
  • December 2009
  • November 2009
  • October 2009
  • September 2009
  • August 2009
  • July 2009
  • June 2009
  • May 2009
  • April 2009
  • March 2009
  • February 2009
  • January 2009
  • December 2008
  • November 2008
  • October 2008
  • September 2008
  • August 2008
  • July 2008
  • June 2008
  • May 2008
  • April 2008
  • March 2008
  • February 2008
  • January 2008
  • December 2007
  • November 2007
  • October 2007
  • September 2007
  • August 2007
  • July 2007
  • June 2007
  • May 2007
  • April 2007
  • March 2007
  • February 2007
  • January 2007
  • December 2006
  • November 2006
  • October 2006
  • September 2006
  • August 2006
  • July 2006
  • June 2006
  • May 2006
  • April 2006
  • March 2006
  • February 2006
  • January 2006
  • December 2005
  • November 2005
  • October 2005
  • September 2005
  • August 2005
  • July 2005
  • June 2005
  • May 2005
  • April 2005
  • March 2005
  • February 2005
  • January 2005
  • December 2004
  • November 2004
  • October 2004
  • September 2004
  • August 2004
  • July 2004
  • June 2004
  • May 2004
  • April 2004
  • March 2004
  • February 2004
  • January 2004
  • December 2003
  • November 2003
  • October 2003

Categories

  • Ancient Civilizations
  • Benjamin Fulford Story
  • Corrupt Carnivores
  • Cryptology and Monsters
  • Eating Healthy
  • Ghost And Demons
  • Information and Theories
  • Mars Coverage
  • Meditation And Spirituality
  • Mysteries
  • NASA Articles
  • Other Exciting News
  • Personal Accounts
  • Pictures And Multimedia
  • Political Conspiracies
  • Recent Submissions
  • Religion Articles
  • Self Improvement
  • Simply Unexplainable
  • Space and Astrology
  • Technology Articles
  • True Stories
  • UFOs and Aliens
  • Unexplainable Video Library
  • Unexplainable Weather
  • Bigfoot Contest Big Hoax Simply Unexplainable
  • Making Fake UFO Photos For UFO Hoax Other Exciting News
  • Weather Facts: Through Sun and Fog Information and Theories
  • Biolocation Information and Theories
  • DC UFO Hits Boston UFOs and Aliens
  • “Tractor Beam” Technology Developed for Space Debris Technology Articles
  • NASA to Launch First Solar Sail NASA Articles
  • Earth Impacted by Solar Storm – More to Come NASA Articles

Copyright © 2023 Unexplainable.net.

Powered by PressBook News Dark theme