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rocketsocks t1_ja13kdl wrote

Reply to comment by augugusto in Euclid space telescope launch scheduled for July — ESA mission to chart a 3D map of the universe, in search of dark matter and dark energy by marketrent

All of the "orbits" or pseudo-orbits at the Lagrange points are within a very large volume. At the Sun-Earth L1 and L2 points the typical orbit is a halo orbit or a Lissajous orbit which loops around the Lagrange point at a distance of typically a few hundred thousand kilometers (on a similar scale to the Earth-Moon distance). In a practical sense the volume available for spacecraft to use the points is so enormous that we are unlikely to run into any crowding constraints any time soon.

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