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Formerly known as the Deep Space Gateway (DSG), the station was renamed Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway (LOP-G) in NASA's 2018 proposal for the 2019 United States federal budget. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] When the NASA budget was signed into law on February 15, 2019, [ 16 ] US$450 million had been committed by Congress to preliminary studies.
The Gateway Spaceport's design is inspired in part by the ideas of Wernher von Braun, who pioneered in the field of human spaceflight.It has been designed to connect people from all over the world so we can make this first step together by being a staging point between spacecraft from Earth and from other space stations, the moon and outer planets.
The European System Providing Refueling Infrastructure and Telecommunications (ESPRIT) is an under construction module of the Lunar Gateway. [1] It will provide refueling through additional xenon and hydrazine capacity for use in the Power and Propulsion Element 's ion engines and hydrazine thrusters.
Northrop offered a "minimal" 6.1-meter (20 feet) by 3-meter (9.8 feet) design based on the Cygnus spacecraft, as well as a larger 7-meter (22.9 feet) by 4.4-meter (14.4 feet) design also based on the Cygnus, [7] [12] to the outside of which radial docking ports, body-mounted radiators (BMRs), batteries and communications antennae will be added ...
The Gateway Logistics Services (acronymized as GLS) will be a series of uncrewed spaceflights to the Lunar Gateway space station, with the purpose of providing logistical services to the Gateway. Overseen by NASA 's Gateway Logistics Element , the flights will be operated by commercial providers, contracted by the agency in support of crewed ...
The asteroid-specific payload was at one end of the spacecraft bus, either for possible removal and replacement via future servicing, or as a separable, reusable spacecraft, leaving a qualified space tug in cislunar space. This made adaption for Gateway easy, as the propulsion system was already designed to be multi-mission reusable.
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The Exploration Gateway Platform [1] was a design concept proposed by Boeing in December 2011 to drastically reduce the cost of Moon, near Earth asteroids (NEAs), or Mars missions by using components already designed to construct a refueling depot and servicing station located at one of the Earth–Moon Lagrange points, L1 or L2. [2]