A comprehensive review on Cislunar expansion and space domain awareness

B Baker-McEvilly, S Bhadauria, D Canales… - Progress in Aerospace …, 2024 - Elsevier
The Cislunar region is crucial for expanding human presence in space in the forthcoming
decades. This paper presents a comprehensive review of recent and anticipated Earth …

[PDF][PDF] A review on hot-spot areas within the Cislunar region and upon the Moon surface, and methods to gather passive information from these regions

B Baker-McEvilly, S Doroba, A Gilliam… - AAS/AIAA 33rd Space …, 2023 - researchgate.net
The Cislunar region is becoming a focal point of expansion over upcoming decades. Long-
term Lunar infrastructure supporting Cislunar expansion must be located in key regions on …

Sensor tasking in the cislunar regime using Monte Carlo Tree Search

S Fedeler, M Holzinger, W Whitacre - Advances in Space Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Maintaining tracks on space objects with limited sets of observers is a critical problem, made
more urgent with exponential growth in the population of near-Earth satellites. An optimally …

Controlled short-period orbits around Earth-Moon equilateral libration points for Lunar Occultations

K Patel, LEM Zambrano, D Canales, R Bevilacqua… - Acta Astronautica, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a framework for a satellite mission with the goal to perform Lunar
Occultations within the context of the circular restricted three-body problem (CR3BP) of the …

US strategic interest in the moon: An assessment of economic, national security, and geopolitical drivers

M Borowitz, A Noonan, R El Ghazal - Space Policy, 2024 - Elsevier
Since the 1980s, US leaders have repeatedly directed the United States to return to the
Moon, yet in each case, efforts were canceled within a few years of being announced …

Local orbital elements for the circular restricted three-body problem

LT Peterson, DJ Scheeres - Journal of Guidance, Control, and …, 2023 - arc.aiaa.org
The Keplerian orbital elements make up a set of parameters that uniquely describe a two-
body trajectory. Once perturbations are imposed on two-body dynamics, one often studies …

Optimizing multi-spacecraft cislunar space domain awareness systems via hidden-genes genetic algorithm

L Visonneau, Y Shimane, K Ho - The Journal of the Astronautical Sciences, 2023 - Springer
This paper proposes an optimization problem formulation to tackle the challenges of cislunar
Space Domain Awareness (SDA) through multi-spacecraft monitoring. Due to the large …

[PDF][PDF] Cislunar orbit determination and tracking via simulated space-based measurements

MR Thompson, NP Ré, C Meek… - Advanced Maui Optical …, 2021 - amostech.com
Building on previous work in cislunar orbit determination at Advanced Space, this paper
demonstrates cislunar orbit determination via simulated optical measurements from another …

[PDF][PDF] Optical observation regions in cislunar space using the bi-circular restricted four body problem geometry

S Bhadauria, C Frueh - Proceedings of the 2022 Advanced Maui …, 2022 - amostech.com
The number of missions into the cislunar realm, the space from the Earth to including the
lunar region, is about to increase in the foreseeable future. This development also imposes …

[PDF][PDF] Earth-Moon multi-body orbits to facilitate cislunar surveillance activities

M Gupta, KC Howell, C Frueh - AIAA/AAS Astrodynamics …, 2021 - researchgate.net
As human interest expands outward towards the Moon again, there exists a growing focus
on Space Domain Awareness to effectively regulate and track objects in the cislunar region …