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If I may take advantage of the presence of knowledgable people in this thread…

The JWST is located at the L2 point. Does that mean L2 is now “taken”, or could it make sense to host multiple telescopes and spacecraft at or near that point?



In short, it orbits the L2 point. There's plenty of room for more!

Here's a 20s YouTube video that should clear things right up:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cUe4oMk69E

Here's an article with additional info:

https://webb.nasa.gov/content/about/orbit.htm


There's already multiple telescopes there, including the Gaia telescope. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_objects_at_Lagrange_po...


As I understand it, it's more of a region around that point in space that spacecraft try to stay close to/within




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