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Interplanetary Superhighway

( Science and Space )

Anyone with a rudimentary knowledge of celestial mechanics should appreciate this. A scientist at JPL has mapped the Lagrange points (the point where one body’s gravity balances another’s) for every planet and moon in the solar system and then mapped those Lagrange points against possible spacecraft trajectories. The resultant mapping is a “freeway [...]