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 …

Cislunar Periodic Orbits for Earth–Moon and Lagrange Point Surveillance

AP Wilmer, RA Bettinger, BD Little - Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, 2022 - arc.aiaa.org
International attention is being increasingly placed on the cislunar region of space, which
offers to serve as the new high ground for land-and space-based operations. With an …

[PDF][PDF] Preliminary comparative assessment of l2 and l3 surveillance using select cislunar periodic orbits

JA Dahlke, AP Wilmer, RA Bettinger - AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics …, 2022 - researchgate.net
Expansion of Space Domain Awareness (SDA) into the cislunar environment is an area of
growing demand due to the increased interest in the region. There is limited analysis on the …

[PDF][PDF] Near-rectilinear halo orbit surveillance using cislunar periodic orbits

AP Wilmer, RA Bettinger - 2022 Advanced Maui Optical and Space …, 2022 - amostech.com
Cislunar space is anticipated to become increasingly congested in the coming decades with
both nations and private companies building up infrastructure to support missions to the …

Preliminary investigation and proposal of periodic orbits and their utilization for logistics in the cislunar regime

AP Wilmer, RA Bettinger, LM Shockley, MJ Holzinger - Space Policy, 2024 - Elsevier
The world is in the midst of what is widely considered the second Space Age due to the
vastly growing commercial space sector and progress with international initiatives such as …

Debris Propagation and Spacecraft Survivability Assessment for Catastrophic Mishaps Occurring in Cislunar Periodic Orbits

AP Wilmer, NR Boone, RA Bettinger - Journal of Space Safety Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
abstract Ongoing international efforts and planned Artemis missions have made more
frequent cislunar space travel likely in the coming decades. With this increase in space …

[PDF][PDF] Earth-Moon logistical operations utilizing cislunar periodic orbits

AP Wilmera, RA Bettingerb - space exploration, 2022 - researchgate.net
The world is arguably in the beginning of the second Space Age. The continued
development and support of NASA's Artemis program and similar international efforts has …

[PDF][PDF] Cislunar space situational awareness sensor tasking using deep reinforcement learning agents

PM Siew, D Jang, TG Roberts, R Linares… - 2022 Advanced Maui …, 2022 - amostech.com
Cislunar space is gaining popularity with numerous missions being planned for the near
future. However, operating in the cislunar space domain poses additional risk to satellites …

Preliminary Approach to Resilient Cislunar Space Domain Awareness Architecture Design

VA Yang, JT McNabb, MG Balchanos… - AIAA SCITECH 2025 …, 2025 - arc.aiaa.org
Space Domain Awareness (SDA) is a key enabler for further developments in the space
environment. It encompasses target detection, tracking, and identification for both space …

Development of an EKF-based tracking algorithm for unresponsive objects in cislunar space and methods for its use in cislunar surveillance architecture design

N Puri, MJ Steffens, DN Mavris - AIAA SCITECH 2024 Forum, 2024 - arc.aiaa.org
As humanity expands into cislunar space, operational saftey will necessitate a robust and
reliable surveillance architecture. Such an architecture will need to be capable of tracking …