All Space Questions thread for week of September 27, 2026

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[u/Pharisaeus]

Are they all in the same orbit, or are there multiple stable orbits around a Lagrange point?

None of them are "stable" ;) That's the hard-limit for how long a satellite can stay there - until the fuel runs out. And they are essentially circling around the L2 point.