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As the Wikipedia article mentions, we’ve already done just this with the JWST…

• NavinF 3y ago
  Naw the JWST won't stay there after it loses power. > The points L1, L2, and L3 are positions of unstable equilibrium. Any object orbiting at L1, L2, or L3 will tend to fall out of orbit; it is therefore rare to find natural objects there, and spacecraft inhabiting these areas must employ a small but critical amount of station keeping in order to maintain their position.
  • jamiek88 3y ago
    Nothing will. The Lagrange points are only quasi stable.
    • cperciva 3y ago
      L4 and L5 are "stable" -- but of course on timescales of billions of years even Earth's orbit isn't guaranteed to be stable.