How to Use cislunar in a Sentence

cislunar

adjective
  • That's enough to move from higher orbits to cislunar space and back.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 2024-04-30
  • The contract also includes a cislunar transporter and one uncrewed lunar landing demonstration.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 2025-01-16
  • These programs could spur commercial space players to redouble their efforts to develop and monetize cislunar space and the lunar surface.
    — John Kross, Space.com, 2025-02-03
  • Step two involves the international spaceflight community coming together to build cyclers that ply cislunar space, taking people on trips to the moon and back.
    — Mike Wall, NBC News, 2017-05-11
  • These guiding principles apply to international and commercial partnerships that will operate in the space between the Earth and the moon, known as cislunar space.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 2020-10-14
  • The agency had long maintained that the space program would benefit from having a presence in cislunar space—the area between the Earth and the moon—to test technologies for future missions to Mars and beyond.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 2019-07-08
  • Engineers sought to protect satellites in Earth orbit and avoid creating additional debris in cislunar space, Astrobotic said.
    — George Petras, USA TODAY, 2024-01-20
  • Private industry is thriving in the cislunar space industry, with large shares from both private satellite launchers like Virgin Orbit and academic and government research bodies.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 2020-04-16
  • That motive still exists in the U.S.-China rivalry, but now both countries are working toward building an enduring presence on the moon and in cislunar space, the real estate between the moon and Earth.
    — Christian Davenport, Washington Post, 2023-11-13
  • The Space Force must grow significantly as the economic and military competition with China expands outward from low-earth and medium-earth orbits toward cislunar space.
    — Jerry Hendrix, National Review, 2022-03-17

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