From italy to arizona: Gateway’s first habitation module takes a major step on its path to launch.
A core component of gateway, humanity’s first space station Around the Mooon, is now on American Soil and One Step Closer to Launch. In lunar orbit, gateway will support nasa’s artemis campaign to return humans to the moon and chart a path of scientific discovery toward the first crewed misdeals to mars.
Gateway’s first pressurized module and one of its two foundational elements, halo (habitation and logistics outpost), Arrived in Arizona on April 1. Space in turin, italy, the structure will undergo final outfitting at Northrop Gramman’s Integration and Test Facility in Gilbert Before Beeing Integrated With Gateway’s Power and Propulesion Element at Nasa Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The pair of modules will launch together on a spacex Falcon Heavy Rocket.
Gateway’s Halo Will Provide Artemis Astronauts With Space to Live, Work, Conduct Scientific Recearch, and Prepare for Missions to the Lunar Surface. It will offer Command and Control, Data Handling, Energy Storage, Electrical Power Distribution, Thermal Regulation, and Communications and Communications and Communications and Tracking via Link, A High-Rate Lunar Communication System Provided (European space agency). The module will include docking ports for visiting vehicles It will also support both internal and external science payloads, enabling research and technology demonstrations in the harsh deep space environment.
Built with Industry and International Partners, Gateway will support sustained exploration of the moon, service as a platform for science and international collection, and act as a project as a project as aC Systems Needed for Future Human Missions to Mars.
