The Astrodynamics Primer on Cislunar and Translunar Space

arXiv:2606.26367 · astro-ph.EP · Submitted 2026-06-24 · Read on arXiv

Aaron J. Rosengren, Anjali Rawat, Bhanu Kumar, Shane D. Ross

astro-ph.EP

Submitted: 2026-06-24

Comments: 77 pages, 16 multi-panel figures, 4 tables, and more than 300 references. Comprehensive research/review manuscript submitted for publication; comments are welcome

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Core — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Trace — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fidelity — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Clustering — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Scaffolding — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Symmetry Breaking — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Air Force Office of Scientific Research — 1× in this paper
• Aperture — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Chandra X-Ray Observatory — 1× in this paper
• Chaotic Dynamics — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Dynamical regimes — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Regularization — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Secular Approximation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• alpha — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode

Sources

• Orbital Networks in the Three-Body Problem

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