Sailors aboard amphibious transport dock USS Portland (LPD 27) use a line load attenuating mechanism assembly to tug the NASA Artemis I Orion spacecraft into the well deck on Dec. 11, 2022 (U.S. Navy Photo)
U.S. Space Command, the operational side of U.S. military space, is the cislunar environment as a long term focus, because the command discusses novel concepts for low Earth orbit (LEO) and geosynchronous (GEO) satellites, corresponding to on-orbit servicing and…