An illustration of Lunar Flashlight in cislunar space. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech If there is a buzzword for space in the 2020s, it’s “cislunar.” NASA talks about the lunar Gateway as the “cislunar ...
The U.S. wants to keep a closer eye on cislunar orbits amid burgeoning activity closer to the Moon. Credit: buradaki/Getty Images As the U.S. prepares to return astronauts to the Moon, the Pentagon is ...
GOLDEN, Colorado — The increased amount of space hardware flying through cislunar space and around the moon is, among experts, a growing worry. Even one fragmentation event can have calamitous and far ...
Today, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy released the first National Cislunar Science and Technology (S&T) Strategy to address how U.S. S&T leadership will support responsible, ...
Interest in the Moon has been high – just in the past two years there have been 12 attempts to send missions to the Moon, nearly half of which private companies undertook. With so much activity, it’s ...
TechCrunch was proud to host the Aerospace Corporation at Disrupt 2024 in San Francisco. Here’s an overview of their Space Stage session. Cislunar space — the region between Earth and the moon — is ...
What was once symbolic is rapidly becoming strategic infrastructure. Between December 2025 and February 2026, the shift became unmistakable. A United States executive order reframed space as a pillar ...
The Air Force Research Laboratory identified its Cislunar Highway Patrol System as one of many programs that will benefit from a more rapid contracting vehicle. (AFRL) WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space ...
A U.S. Air Force lab expects to issue a solicitation for the Cislunar Highway Patrol System by next month. (Air Force Research Laboratory) WASHINGTON — The Air Force Research Laboratory could award a ...