Abstract: The effect of lunar gravity environment on the lunar satellite orbit is analyzed. The differences between the frozen orbit for lunar and earth satellites are compared first. It is shown that the lunar gravity anomaly is responsible for a large drift to the lunar satellite orbit, the lunar tesseral harmonics are responsible for a moderate period drift to the lunar frozen orbit. Because the effect of lunar gravity anomaly on lunar satellites is quite different from the case for the earth, so for the long-term orbit operation and control for lunar satellites, a different strategy must be adopted than the traditional methods designed for the earth satellite orbit.