translunar
Americanadjective
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Aerospace, Astronomy. of or relating to the region of space extending beyond the moon's orbit.
adjective
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lying beyond the moon Compare cislunar
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unworldly or ethereal
Etymology
Origin of translunar
Example Sentences
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Hansen then described the translunar injection burn -- a maneuver that brought Orion within 200 kilometers of Earth before swinging around onto a new course for the Moon.
From Barron's ● Apr. 4, 2026
The successful launch of the Artemis II mission on Wednesday and its translunar injection burn Thursday evening have been inspiring, with the smooth operations capping a two-decade effort.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 3, 2026
After Orion separates from the upper stage, it will conduct what is called a translunar injection—the engine firing that commits Orion to soaring out to the moon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 29, 2026
After the spacecraft orbited the Earth for about 10 days, it was sent into the translunar orbit last Tuesday and successfully injected into the lunar orbit on Saturday.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2023
Take again— Not Milton's keen, translunar music thine; Not Shakespeare's cloudless, boundless, human view; Not Shelley's flush of rose on peaks divine; Nor yet the wizard twilight Coleridge knew.
From Platform Monologues by Tucker, T. G. (Thomas George)
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