translunar
IPA: trænsɫˈunɝ
adjective
- (of a spaceflight or trajectory) Towards the Moon from the Earth or another planet.
- Situated beyond the Moon or its orbit; unworldly.
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Examples of "translunar" in Sentences
- The mission was also the first to execute a translunar injection.
- Furthermore, an all robotic base means that the translunar infrastructure is much cheaper.
- In the patois of spaceflight, TLI meant “translunar injection”—leaving Earth orbit and heading into deep space.
- You could have an electric or nuclear translunar architecture using oxygen, harvested from the Moon, as reaction mass.
- The whole lunar mining scheme, no matter what you're bringing down, requires a whole translunar infrastructure going _both ways_.
- NASA could then buy [our] services if it needed them, or otherwise utilize [our] translunar transportation systems to achieve its own goals.
- And if we could build sustainable translunar infrastructure, than we would find ourselves in a situation where colonizing the Moon wouldn't be that silly.
- We don't already have translunar manned transport capability (to the surface), and getting it will cost many, many tens of billions more than a sufficiently dexterous RC bot.
- Into the early afternoon, Armstrong monitored the progress of the flight, through its two Earth orbits, through its translunar injection, and well on its way toward the Moon.
- Apollo 10 achieved a number of space firsts, including the first CSM-LM operations in the cislunar and lunar environment, the first CSM-LM docking in translunar trajectory, the first LM undocking in lunar orbit, the first LM staging in lunar orbit, and the first manned LM-CSM docking in lunar orbit.
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