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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.
The Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO), [4] [5] also called the Minimal Habitation Module (MHM) and formerly known as the Utilization Module, is a habitation module that is part of the Lunar Gateway. [6] It will be built by Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems.
A trip to the Moon–and eventually Mars–requires a stopover at the Lunar Gateway, a space station that will support human presence on the Moon and beyond.
After docking to the Gateway, two astronauts will board the Blue Moon lunar lander and fly it to the Lunar south pole to land near the Lunar Terrain Vehicle (LTV). This will be the first lunar landing since Apollo 17 to use an unpressurized lunar rover.
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.
The Gateway orbit will be a 9:2 resonant NRHO, [13] with a period of about 7 days and a high orbital eccentricity, bringing the station within 3,000 kilometers (1,900 mi) of the lunar north pole at closest approach and as far away as 70,000 kilometers (43,000 mi) over the lunar south pole. [14] [15] [8]
The Japanese government has accepted the country's space policy committee's recommendation to help with NASA's Lunar Gateway project during a meeting attended by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and ...
When ARM was cancelled, the solar electric propulsion was repurposed as the PPE for the Gateway. [5] [6] The PPE is designed to be able to transfer the reusable Gateway to lunar orbit. [4] It will also serve as the communications center of the Gateway. [7]