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Wow. The 6-month-long orbit around L2 is twice the size of the Moon-Earth orbit. Sure it's 4 times as far away. But still, with the Earth rotating, the comms ca
by 8bitsrule 5y ago
Wow. The 6-month-long orbit around L2 is twice the size of the Moon-Earth orbit.
Sure it's 4 times as far away. But still, with the Earth rotating, the comms calculations for these guys must be messy:
[https://eyes.nasa.gov/dsn/dsn.html https://eyes.nasa.gov/dsn/dsn.html Deep Space Network]