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Johnnyallen
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I'm confused (what else is new) about L2.
While watching a video from PBS Digital Spacetime about the latest data drop from Gaia Space Telescope, Matt O'Dowd showed a CGI animation of the telescope leaving Earth then circling/orbiting L2 perpendicular to the Earth/sun plane.
I thought that the craft would remain stationary at L2. That didn't seem to be the case in the animation.
Why is this?
BTW I'm just an old retired guy who is fascinated by this stuff and never studied Physics in college. This PBS Spacetime series is awesome and very accessible (usually)
While watching a video from PBS Digital Spacetime about the latest data drop from Gaia Space Telescope, Matt O'Dowd showed a CGI animation of the telescope leaving Earth then circling/orbiting L2 perpendicular to the Earth/sun plane.
I thought that the craft would remain stationary at L2. That didn't seem to be the case in the animation.
Why is this?
BTW I'm just an old retired guy who is fascinated by this stuff and never studied Physics in college. This PBS Spacetime series is awesome and very accessible (usually)