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Cislunar a Longer Term Focus for U.S. Space Command

Frank Wolfe

Thursday, June 15th, 2023

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Cislunar a Longer Term Focus for U.S. Space Command

Sailors aboard amphibious transport dock USS Portland (LPD 27) use a line load attenuating mechanism assembly to pull the NASA Artemis I Orion spacecraft into the well deck on Dec. 11, 2022 (U.S. Navy Photo)

U.S. Space Command, the operational side of U.S. military space, is looking at the cislunar environment as a longer term focus, as the command discusses novel concepts for low Earth orbit (LEO) and geosynchronous (GEO) satellites, such as on-orbit servicing and maneuver. "When it comes to LEO, GEO, cislunar, I have to say our primary overall mission day in and day out is to make sure that we're getting those space capabilities that our terrestrial warfighters and our society need,…

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