cislunar

See also: cis-lunar

English

From cis- +‎ lunar.

cislunar (not comparable)

Situated between the Earth and the Moon.
- 2020 December 16, Steven Lee Myers, Kenneth Chang, “China Brings Moon Rocks to Earth, and a New Era of Competition to Space”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:
  Lt. Gen. Zhang Yulin, a former deputy commander of China’s astronaut program, wrote in The People’s Daily last year that cislunar space — the area between the Earth and moon — would “become another broad field for the expansion of human living space.”
Situated below the orbit of the Moon, or equivalent distance from the Earth.

situated below the orbit of the Moon — see sublunar