Cislunar Systems Architectures Survey Paper

The next space race has begun. Plans are well underway to establish architectures in cislunar space. This paper provides a summary of research conducted on cislunar space architectures, including primary missions, and supporting functions. Planned primary missions can be broadly categorized as science, commercial, and defense missions. Supporting functions are broadly categorized as transportation, communication, navigation, domain awareness, service, energy, shelter, and control. Potential solutions and identified gaps for each mission and supporting function is offered in this paper. Ample research has been conducted for each primary mission and supporting function. However, a comprehensive cislunar space architecture is lacking.