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No L2 is on the further side of the moon.

Maybe when we have active bases on the moon or Mars would a rendezvous with L2 be feasible but not before. Hubble is in low earth orbit and far more accessible.




Not exactly. Actually it's on the opposite side of the Earth relative to the Sun. So the 3 are always on one line but it has nothing to do with the position of the Moon. (Maybe you thought it was at the L2 of Earth-Moon system?)


Oof, I knew that. JWST is at the earth-sun L2, that fact just didn’t enter my mind trying to figure out how far away it was.




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