situated beyond the moon or its orbit around the earth; "who can imagine a translunary visitor in Times Square?"
Used in a Sentence
translunar
How to use translunar in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for translunar.
Editorial note
Few people ever need long-range, heavyweight translunar space travel.
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Quick take
situated beyond the moon or its orbit around the earth; "who can imagine a translunary visitor in Times Square?"
Meaning at a glance
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unworldly or ethereal; "high translunary dreams"
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for translunar.
adjective
situated beyond the moon or its orbit around the earth; "who can imagine a translunary visitor in Times Square?"
See also: translunary, superlunar, superlunary
adjective
unworldly or ethereal; "high translunary dreams"
See also: translunary, superlunar, superlunary
Example sentences
Few people ever need long-range, heavyweight translunar space travel.
Launch the habitat, and then launch the translunar tug/landing apparatus.
I expect at least another moon landing by someone and I do think Starship will fly, though maybe only to LEO or translunar flyby by 2030.
The Wikipedia page for it indicates that the S-IVB's engine was burned twice, once for the final push to achieve LEO and one for translunar injection.
Today ISS has a history of pushes by Shuttle, of refuels with Progress and ATV ships and I'm not sure what prevents using similar - though not identical - approach with translunar injections.
The two supernovae that Tycho Brahe and Kepler witnessed in a fairly close interval certainly helped to disprove the aristotelian notion that nothing could change in translunar space !
What's next?What's next would be the design of a navigation system for translunar and cislunar navigation - after Apollo, and the exploration of the solar system, this has become a solved problem.
Saturn-V could either send to LEO the Skylab - less than 80 tons - or bring to orbit an Apollo stack, from which a lot of mass was the 3rd stage of Saturn-V with carefully unspent fuel, intended to provide translunar injection; that stack, yes, was way more than 120 tons.
Frequently asked questions
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How do you use translunar in a sentence?
Few people ever need long-range, heavyweight translunar space travel.
What does translunar mean?
situated beyond the moon or its orbit around the earth; "who can imagine a translunary visitor in Times Square?"
What part of speech is translunar?
translunar is commonly used as adjective.