Coolest spacecraft ever in orbit around L2

 Planck telescope focal plane unit

Planck telescope focal plane unit

Τhe detectors of Planck’s High Frequency Instrument reached their amazingly low operational temperature of -273°C, making them the coldest known objects in space. The spacecraft also entered orbit around the second Lagrange point of the Sun-Earth system, L2.

Planck's orbit

Planck's orbit

Source:ESA

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