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NASA signed a separate contract with Northrop for the fabrication of the HALO, and for integration with the Power and Propulsion Element (PPE), being built by Maxar, for US$935 million. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] In mid 2024, the module reached significant completion and entered into the stress test phase in Thales Alenia 's facilities.
Artemis IV is a planned mission of the NASA-led Artemis program.The mission will include the fourth use of a Space Launch System (SLS) launch vehicle, will send an Orion spacecraft with four astronauts to the Lunar Gateway space station, install a new module on the Gateway, and conduct the second lunar landing of the Artemis program.
The Lunar I-Hab [3] (formerly known as International Habitation Module, International Habitat or I-HAB) is designed as a habitat module of the Lunar Gateway station, to be built by the European Space Agency (ESA) in collaboration with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA.
Pretty much everybody who is anybody in space has won contracts by this point: Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and Northrop Grumman, L3Harris, RTX Corp, and tiny Rocket Lab, too.
A Blue Origin New Shepard rocket lifts off from the company's launch site in West Texas on March 31, 2022. The mission carried five paying passengers and Gary Lai, New Shepard's chief architect ...
It’s currently deployed on Navy Super Hornet jet and (soon) P-8 Poseidon patrol planes, as well as Air Force B-1Bs and even from a palletized launcher designed for release from C-130 and C-17 ...
Both PPE and HALO will be assembled on Earth and launched together on a Falcon Heavy rocket in 2027 [1] [44] They are expected to reach lunar orbit after nine to ten months. [45] The I-Hab module, a contribution from ESA and JAXA, is to be launched on the SLS Block 1B as a co-manifested payload on the Artemis IV crewed Orion mission. [ 46 ]
Rocket Flight number Launch site LSP; Payload (⚀ = CubeSat) Operator Orbit Function Decay (UTC) Outcome Remarks March (TBD) [1] SLS Block 1B Kennedy LC-39B: NASA: Artemis 5: NASA: Selenocentric Crewed lunar landing ESPRIT Refueling Module (ERM) ESA: Selenocentric Lunar Gateway component Lunar Terrain Vehicle: NASA: Selenocentric to lunar surface