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#1 2006-04-28 10:43:15
- Rxke
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Re: Gateway Station?
Been reading Science et Vie, an article about the future of spaceflight, and it had a 2 page 'organigram' depicting 'Gateway station' The article actually had very little to say about it, but put it there as 'fact', AFAICT
Looks like a small man-tended circular station, probably man-tended, some big comms antennae and what looks like a long hab-like attachement, imagine something like a jumbo voyager, with a 'tube' attached to its belly, perpendicular.
Anyone has any info on this? Sadly I can't upload the pic, my scanner just grinded its stepper-motor teeth to smithereens, judging from the sound of it 
(or: 
yay, more stuff to disassemble and build robots with, heh)
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#2 2006-04-28 14:27:37
- publiusr
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Re: Gateway Station?
Might be a good SE add on 100-200 yrs out.
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#3 2022-04-11 15:08:25
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Re: Gateway Station?
Meet the Lunar Gateway’s Robot Caretakers
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#4 2022-06-08 04:34:04
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Re: Gateway Station?
Artemis Accords: France to join NASA's moon exploration mission
https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20 … on-mission
France has a solid aerospace industry, its science missions often heart and center of the ESA and the Ariane workhorse rocket.
Some critics here think 'Gateway' in not needed for Mars and might have been a continuation of the Vision for Space Exploration, announced by President George Bush jnr, was seen as a response to the Columbia disaster, and the Space policy of the Barack Obama administration. Obama announced the development of a new Heavy Lift Vehicle (HLV) to replace the planned Ares V, with the design planned for completion by 2015. Lunar Gateway or 'Gateway' is the planned small space station in a strange lunar orbit intended to serve as a solar-powered communication hub, science laboratory, short-term habitation module for government-agency astronauts, a place for private tourists as well as acting as a shipping route and holding area for rovers and other robots?
'Many consider NASA’s planned lunar Gateway as ineffective and a waste of resources. The Gateway, at least as originally envisioned more than two decades ago, can be essential to exploration of the Moon and beyond.'
https://twitter.com/tsr/status/1503073165316079617
When we looked for the proper orbit for NASA_Gateway , we were fortunate to have options. We could go high or low, but what if we could have the best of both, where we had both easy surface access and fuel efficiency? Enter the near-rectilinear halo orbit
https://twitter.com/JimFree/status/1528824091360350216
Astro_Alex is getting ready for lunar orbit
https://twitter.com/esaspaceflight/stat … 9606296578
He recently visited Thales_Alenia_S
to test out and provide feedback on accommodations for the next human outpost in space, the lunar Gateway
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