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...
July 2019
Robotic astronomy on the Moon
...installations. ILOA has submitted a proposal to the recent NASA Lunar Surface Instrument and Technology Payloads programme for its potential flight... looking for minerals to crewed bases and a lunar gateway platform in a nearby orbit. The Chinese human...
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, ...
May 2025
A time zone for the Moon
...’s calendar and its role in space industrialisation strategy”. An artist’s impression showing the full configuration of NASA’s lunar gateway. In the coming years, as part of the Artemis programme [see box on page 89], NASA plans to send astronauts...
