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What is the best place to 'park' a satellite?

The mathematician Joseph-Louis Lagrange (1736-1813) could not yet have known anything about space exploration and satellite technology. Still, he made a mathematical discovery that is of great importance to modern space research: If two differently sized bodies, such as the Earth and the Sun, orbit around each other, there are five special points in their gravitational field.

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