January 2023
Private space stations and NASA’s effort to re-invent itself
.... Indeed, the concern with overdesign and over-complexity seems to be confirmed by NASA’s streamlined design for its Lunar Gateway, and especially by the decision to replace the massive ISS with two smaller and much more efficient...
November 2019
PROSPECTing for lunar polar volatiles
...landers and rovers that provide additional ground truth to complement orbiter datasets, to the development of the Lunar Gateway (also called Deep Space Gateway). Which of these visions will be implemented? This should become clear at the upcoming ESA...
July 2021
Collaboration and competition in lunar exploration
...be driven by human spaceflight programmes - to support projects such as the Lunar Gateway, lunar transportation systems and the continuation of LEO programmes - as well as robotic lunar exploration missions. Currently, over 30 countries were reported...
January 2022
International cooperation - the key to survival on Earth and in space
... long-term exploration activities, such as the lunar gateway and related technology demonstrations. What impressed me ... resources in radiation monitoring that will be conducted on the gateway element. I think sub-orbital flights will become more and...
02 October 2019
First look at China's new spacecraft capable of deep-space travel
... agency hope will carry their astronauts to the Gateway ahead of lunar surface missions beginning in 2024, China’s as-yet..., for three weeks and can stay docked to the proposed lunar Gateway for more than six months. The new Chinese spacecraft, will...
16 July 2021
NASA's $25 billion FY2022 funding bill is approved
...proceed with development of a HLS that will take astronauts from lunar orbit down to and back from the Moon’s surface. ...$1.195 billion - a budget which also funds the Gateway, Advanced Cislunar and Surface Capabilities, Advanced Exploration Systems, ...
