{"671026":{"#nid":"671026","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Q\u0026A: What is the space between Earth and the moon and why does it matter?","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETwo researchers from Georgia Tech are part of a multi-university team collaborating on a $4.5 million project to better understand cislunar space \u2014 the area between Earth and the moon \u2014 which is critical for future space exploration.\u0026nbsp;The Characterizing Highways and Automated Navigation in Cislunar Environment (CHANCE) project is funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research and involves scientists from Purdue University, Penn State University, Georgia Tech, and the University of Texas at Austin. With the moon\u2019s gravity being one-sixth of Earth\u2019s gravity, significantly less propulsion is required to navigate within cislunar space and the costs to explore the solar system using the moon as a launching platform are much cheaper. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ae.gatech.edu\/directory\/person\/john-christian\u0022\u003EJohn Christian\u003C\/a\u003E, associate professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ae.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EDaniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E, is a co-principal investigator, and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/antonleykin.math.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EAnton Leykin\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/math.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Mathematics\u003C\/a\u003E, is a collaborator.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETwo researchers from Georgia Tech are part of a team from four universities collaborating on a $4.5 million project to better understand cislunar space \u2014 the area between Earth and the moon \u2014 which is critical for future space exploration.\u0026nbsp;The Characterizing Highways and Automated Navigation in Cislunar Environment (CHANCE) project is funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research and involves scientists from Purdue University, Penn State University, Georgia Tech, and the University of Texas at Austin. With the moon\u2019s gravity being one-sixth of Earth\u2019s gravity, significantly less propulsion is required to navigate within cislunar space and the costs to explore the solar system using the moon as a launching platform are much cheaper. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ae.gatech.edu\/directory\/person\/john-christian\u0022\u003EJohn Christian\u003C\/a\u003E, associate professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ae.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EDaniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E, is a co-principal investigator, and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/antonleykin.math.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EAnton Leykin\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/math.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Mathematics\u003C\/a\u003E, is a collaborator.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2023-11-13 14:59:38","changed_gmt":"2023-11-13 14:59:38","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Penn State University","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.psu.edu\/news\/engineering\/story\/qa-what-space-between-earth-and-moon-and-why-does-it-matter\/","dateline":{"date":"2023-11-06T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2023-11-06T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1279","name":"School of Mathematics"}],"categories":[{"id":"136","name":"Aerospace"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"168854","name":"School of Mathematics"},{"id":"14768","name":"Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering"},{"id":"191410","name":"Anton Leykin"},{"id":"130511","name":"John Christian"},{"id":"193254","name":"cislunar space"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}