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Cis-Lunar Trajectory

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Cis-lunar trajectories encompass all of the orbits revolving around the Earth (circumterrestrial) and Moon (circumlunar), as well as those about the Earth-Moon Lagrange points (libration point orbits) and the various paths between the Earth and Moon (trans-lunar trajectories and transfers). The scope herein is limited to the later classes of orbits, thereby omitting discussions on near-Earth trajectories from low-Earth orbits to the geosynchronous regime and the bounded selenocentric orbital regions such as low-lunar orbits.

Introduction

New transportation, communication, and logistic infrastructures are being planned and developed for cis-lunar space in the Earth-Moon system. Cis-lunar (alternatively, cislunar) space refers to the orbital regimes about the Earth out to and including the region around the surface of the Moon. A wide variety of dynamical models are employed to approximate the diversity of trajectories in cis-lunar space. Whereas circumterrestrial and...

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  1. University of California San Diego, Ja Jolla, CA, USA

    Aaron J. Rosengren

  2. University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA

    Daniel J. Scheeres

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Rosengren, A.J., Scheeres, D.J. (2021). Cis-Lunar Trajectory. In: Cudnik, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Lunar Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05546-6_219-1

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