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A close-up of a government-reference airlock module for the Gateway Space Station. Mission planning calls for an airlock to be delivered and integrated to Gateway by the crewed Orion spacecraft on the Artemis VI mission after launching on an Space Launch System (SLS) Block 1B rocket.
The Lunar Gateway, or simply Gateway, is a space station which is planned to be assembled in orbit around the Moon. ... and an airlock for science packages. [2] ...
Second Artemis Lunar landing. Debut of the SLS Block 1B and the Exploration Upper Stage. Co-manifested delivery of the I-HAB module to the Lunar Gateway, [10] [11] followed by a crewed lunar landing. [12] Artemis 5: March 2030 [13] TBA: SLS Block 1B Crew Kennedy Space Center, LC-39B: ≈30d Co-manifested delivery of the ESPRIT Refueling Module ...
On Artemis missions, a trip to the Moon (scheduled for 2025) and eventually Mars will require a stopover at the Lunar Gateway, a space station that will support a sustainable human presence on the ...
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.
Since 2012, numerous iterations of large lunar and Mars transport habitats have been conceived in previous studies to be launched with the Space Launch System (SLS), [2] [3] and are intended to also be compatible with the Orion capsule. Variations of the designs would be used for the Lunar Gateway and the Deep Space Transport. [2]
Delivery of the I-HAB module to the Lunar Gateway, followed by a 4-person lunar landing. [14] [261] Planned Artemis V: March 2030 [15] TBA: SLS Block 1B Blue Moon [262] ~30 days Delivery of the ESPRIT module to the Lunar Gateway, followed by a 2-person lunar landing with the Lunar Terrain Vehicle. Planned Artemis VI: March 2031 [15] TBA [iii ...
NASA also plans to launch the first two components of the Lunar Gateway, [1] a key part of its efforts to return to the Moon and a stepping stone for crewed missions to Mars in the 2030s. [2] China plans to launch the eXTP X-ray observatory. [3]