L5

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Thread: L5

# 20808 byGeorge Perkins on Sept. 29, 2005, 7:48 p.m.
Member since 2022-08-22

Right, Kent. Exactly.

It's sticky space.

If the ISS was there we wouldn't have to keep boosting it back up
every six months or so. It would stay there.

But we need to factor everything in to see if there's a real cost
savings and of course we have to be capable of doing it in the first
place.

> Orbital Mechanics is not my strong suit, but my understanding is
that it is
> not orbit you want to achieve at L5. With earth/moon gravity
canceling each
> other out, L5 becomes very stable for objects placed there. Exiting
L5 takes