Cislunar Explorers is a pair of spacecraft that will show the viability of water electrolysis propulsion and interplanetary optical navigation to orbit...

to be paired with a space tug called the Cislunar Transporter, to be built by Lockheed Martin. The Cislunar Transporter is launched in two parts, a tug...

CAPSTONE (Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment) is a lunar orbiter that is testing and verifying the...

space is the region of lunar transfer orbits, between the Moon and Earth. Cislunar space is a region outside of Earth that includes lunar orbits, the Moon's...

and climbed into the LM. After transferring to LM life support, the explorers lightened the ascent stage for the return to lunar orbit by tossing out...

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The Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations (DRACO) was a planned spaceflight demonstration mission under the joint auspices of DARPA, NASA...

evaluation pertains to early stages of the lunar day. The probe aims to explore the changes in the near-surface plasma environment throughout the duration...

The stage adapter contained thirteen CubeSat deployers in total. Cislunar Explorers would demonstrate the viability of water electrolysis propulsion and...

spacecraft is designed and built to be easily adapted to each customer’s cislunar needs. Blue Ghost can be customized to support larger, more complex missions...

space design bureau, headed by Vladimir Chelomei, proposed a competing cislunar orbiting mission using a heavy UR-500K rocket (later renamed the Proton...

November 1, 2021. Pillow, Liz (February 16, 2020). "From a farside first to cislunar dominance? China appears to want to establish 'space economic zone' worth...

stood for taking on the challenge. For doing things that are hard. For exploring together. Of all the things we did last week to introduce Artemis II,...

spacecraft to measure interplanetary space weather, two to explore Jupiter and Saturn, and two to explore Venus. The two outer planet probes, Pioneer 10 and Pioneer...

13. Cernan and Schmitt rode the rover northeast of the landing site, exploring the base of the North Massif and the Sculptured Hills. Stopping at station...

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opposed the crewed lunar landing program (they felt that robotic craft could explore the Moon more cheaply) by demonstrating that some tasks, such as deployment...

assess the possible hazard to spacecraft traveling through the belt, and explore Jupiter and its environment. Later development-stage objectives included...

2022. Barell, John (2016). Antarctic Adventures: Life Lessons from Polar Explorers. Balboa Press. ISBN 978-1-5043-6651-9. Benson, Charles D.; Faherty, William...

TENACIOUS, designed and manufactured in Luxembourg, which was planned to explore the area around the landing site after being lowered to the lunar surface...

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main focus of human presence at the Moon. An earlier NASA proposal for a cislunar station had been made public in 2012 and was dubbed the Deep Space Habitat...

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Scott and Lunar Module Pilot James Irwin landed near Hadley Rille and explored the local area using the rover, allowing them to travel further from the...

during the Apollo 15 mission. This greatly expanded the range of the lunar explorers. Previous teams of astronauts were restricted to short walking distances...

will map exposed water ice on the Moon Cislunar Explorers, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York Earth Escape Explorer (CU-E3), University of Colorado Boulder...

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also carried a drone that was equipped with a neutron spectrometer to explore the permanently shadowed region (PSR) of Marston crater near the landing...