... due to their load carrying capability, enabling them to transport supplies to the Lunar Gateway and to a lunar surface base far more cost effectively. The Lunar Gateway and supporting logistics vehicles, such as the SpaceX Dragon XL and ESA’s Moon...
... specialised landers for different missions. After the first mission, a small permanent space station called the Lunar Gateway, also in rectilinear halo orbit, assists crew transfers and logistics. A space station implies a freighter, and SpaceX...
...is designed around sustainability. NASA and international partners have already begun to construct hardware for the Gateway, a habitable station in lunar orbit. On the surface of the Moon, long-term habitats are planned, supported by in-situ resource...
... a backwards step by the US government away from a more ambitious agenda for space exploration. Even the proposed lunar Gateway - a base in lunar orbit used as a platform for astronauts heading to the Moon and a key element of NASA's Artemis program...
...; and the promise (or threat depending on your national perspective) of China’s advancing space technologies. Inevitably, the Lunar Gateway system featured broadly among the technical sessions, even though the launch of the first hardware...
...the habitat originally proposed for NASA’s lunar Gateway, and do you have other visions for it? GUPTA Yes, it...likely do what they call a shakedown cruise, meaning it stays on the Gateway for a number of years to prove that it works in orbit and ...