Lagrange Island [SEP] continent
Lagrange Island
Lagrange Island is a small rocky island northeast of Newton Island and north of Cape Mousse, Adélie Coast, Antarctica. It was charted in 1951 by the French Antarctic Expedition and named after Joseph-Louis Lagrange, the French mathematician.
See also.
- List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands
can be smaller than the depot and larger than the spacecraft they are intended to resupply. Short range chemical propulsion tugs belonging to the depot may be used to simplify docking tanker rockets and large vehicles like Mars Transfer Vehicles.
Transfers of propellant between the LEO depot, reachable by rockets from Earth, and the deep space ones such as the Lagrange Points and Phobos depots can be performed using Solar electric propulsion (SEP) tugs.
Two missions are currently under development or proposed to support propellant depot refilling. In addition to