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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.
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 ...
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 ...
By 2022, the company Advanced Space built a 12-unit cubesat to fly on a Gateway precursor mission for NASA. Named CAPSTONE (Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment), the spacecraft became the first spacecraft to operate in an NRHO lunar orbit from 14 November 2022 after launch on 28 June 2022.
Amarillo native Holly Ridings is helping lead NASA's new Gateway Program for the next phase in space. Amarillo native leads NASA Gateway Program to create moon orbiting space station Skip to main ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Not everyone has signed on the dotted line to join NASA's plan to start sending astronauts to the moon in 2024 via an outpost in lunar orbit known as the Gateway, but the ...
Artemis V is the fifth planned mission of NASA's Artemis program and the first crewed flight of the Blue Moon lander. [2] The mission will launch four astronauts on a Space Launch System rocket and an Orion to the Lunar Gateway and will be the third lunar landing of the Artemis program.
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.