A depiction of a possible cislunar orbit, where the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Oracle spacecraft will collect observations of resident space objects in the region near the Moon and potentially beyond.
Credit: U.S. Air Force
A U.S. Space Force mission carrying a prototype satellite for cislunar space tracking is now expected to launch next year following a swap in launch providers. The Oracle-M pathfinder was originally manifested on USSF-112 as a secondary payload to a classified Space Force mission, and assigned to...
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