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The Lunar Gateway, or simply Gateway, is a space station which is planned to be assembled in orbit around the Moon. The Gateway is intended to serve as a communication hub, science laboratory, and habitation module for astronauts as part of the Artemis program .
In July 2019, NASA decided to sole source its design for the Minimal Habitation Module of the Lunar Gateway to Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] The motivation to sole source was based on NASA's assessment that Northrop were the only existing NextSTEP-2 contractor with the designs and production capabilities to meet the module ...
Timeline of spaceflight: Working group: Creation and maintenance of lists and timelines related to spaceflight, particularly the article timeline of spaceflight. Centralised to main project Mir, ISS and Gateway: Task force: Improve the coverage of Mir, ISS and Lunar Gateway. Centralised to main project Inactive sub-projects Aerospace biography ...
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 ...
First lunar landing of the Artemis program. [7] Artemis 4: September 2028 [8] [9] TBA: SLS Block 1B Crew Kennedy Space Center, LC-39B: ≈30d 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 ...
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.
Crewed Gateway expedition Crewed lunar landing International Habitation Module (I-HAB) ESA: Selenocentric Lunar Gateway component Third crewed Orion flight, second Artemis lunar landing, and first lunar landing with 4 crew members. [12] First launch of the SLS Block 1B variant with the Exploration Upper Stage. Delivery of I-HAB to the Lunar ...
The Lunar Architecture Study's purpose was to "define a series of lunar missions constituting NASA's Lunar campaign to fulfill the Lunar Exploration elements" of the Vision for Space Exploration. [9] The result was a basic plan for a lunar outpost near one of the poles of the Moon, which would permanently house astronauts in six-month shifts.