July 2019
Developing life support systems for human exploration missions beyond Earth
... capabilities and progressing to complex crewed missions of up to three months at the Gateway and on the surface. These missions will take advantage of the Gateway’s proximity to the Moon - its favourable orbit supports both these ambitious missions...
January 2023
Private space stations and NASA’s effort to re-invent itself
... in terms of safety and reliability. The approach was used in the later stages of the Artemis Moon programme for the design and manufacture of the Gateway lunar orbiter, the Human Landing System and for many of the key components from lunar rovers...
18 March 2019
A habitat prototype for NASA’s Moon-orbiting Gateway
... a member of Congress until his NASA appointment in 2018, Bridenstine described NASA’s vision for the Gateway during his March 11 speech about the White House’s fiscal year 2020 budget request to Congress. “I hear people sometimes say, ‘Well...
18 June 2018
ESA Council backs Lunar gateway venture
... that could see Europe become a major player in the ‘Lunar gateway’ with a reform of a current legal act and with the commissioning of modules to be used as part of the gateway itself. The Lunar gateway set out as a sole NASA initiative but has...
19 April 2019
Mission to Mars by 2033 not viable says independent report
... one of which is that there will be no more than one human mission to the Gateway annually, either to work aboard the Gateway, operate the DST, or to transfer to the lunar surface. This would require NASA to make compromises between focusing on lunar...
19 August 2019
Maxar selected to build, fly first element of NASA’s Lunar Gateway
... a successful demonstration period of up to one-year, NASA could acquire the spacecraft for use as the first element of the Gateway. “The Gateway will give us a strategic presence on and around the Moon. It will drive our activity with commercial and...
