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Cislunar refers to the area between geostationary orbit \u2014 about 22,000 miles above the Earth\u2019s surface \u2014 and the moon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOur primary goals for the program are to advance techniques to detect previously unknown objects through search and discovery, to detect small or distant objects and to study spacecraft positioning and navigation in the [beyond GEO] realm,\u201d Oracle\u2019s principal investigator James Frith said in a Nov. 10 statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The contract for Oracle, which was previously named the Cislunar Highway Patrol System, comes amid a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/battlefield-tech\/space\/2022\/02\/13\/air-force-research-lab-building-momentum-on-cislunar-projects\/\" target=\"_blank\">growing interest in the cislunar environment<\/a> and increasing concerns about potential deep-space threats from adversaries like China. 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