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Stories about: L2

Planck Reaches Its Destination, Drops Temperature The level of complexity at which Planck does its science never failed to amaze anyone looking deeper into its capabilities. In addition to the peculiar point in space where its orbit lies, at the Lagrangian point 2, some 1.5 million kilometers away from us, it also features another remarkable trait – it's ... 4 July 2009 03:31 GMT Planck to Perform Mid-Flight Maneuvers The European Space Agency's Planck satellite has just reached a critical point in its mission, as it got nearly halfway to its destination, the Lagrangian point L2. The delicate observatory has already started making a series of maneuvers in space, all aimed at pushing it onto the correct path to the L2. The mov... 9 June 2009 16:51 GMT