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NASA Lunar Gateway Project Explained The NASA Lunar Gateway project can be understood as an established infrastructure on the Moon for sustained lunar exploration and development. The project involves an orbiting habitat, allowing astronauts to take regular trips to the Moon - just like their trips to the International Space Station (ISS). NASA announced that it had selected the Falcon Heavy rocket to launch the Power and Propulsion Element (PPE) and the Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO). This, the space agency plans to launch the mission by May 2024 at the earliest. NASA further explai...

Spaceflight Insider Matt Haskell February 13th, 2021 An illustration of the Gateway’s Power and Propulsion Element and Habitation and Logistics Outpost in orbit around the Moon. Image: NASA In a contract award as part of NASA’s Artemis program, NASA announced on Tuesday, February 9, that they have awarded the launch contract for initial elements of the Gateway Lunar Outpost to SpaceX and their Falcon Heavy rocket. With a total cost of $331.8 million for the launch and other mission related costs, the Hawthorne, California, based company will utilize its Falcon Heavy rocket to place both t...

NASA has awarded SpaceX a potential $331.8 million contract to launch a solar electric propulsion spacecraft and a crew module using the Falcon Heavy rocket for the agency's mission to land astronauts on the moon in 2024. SpaceX will aim to deploy the lunar Gateway's Power and Propulsion Element along with the Habitation and Logistics Outpost by May 2024 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the agency said Wednesday.

There's SpaceX being chosen to start the building of the Lunar Gateway, the issue of spare fab capacity, Renesas buying Dialog and Graphcore objecting to Nvidia’s $40 billion acquisition of Arm...

Nasa begins to replace the International Space Station Elon Musk’s SpaceX has been chosen by Nasa to begin the replacement of the International Space Station with its successor, the Lunar Gateway. A Falcon Heavy rocket will carry – in 2024 – the first two elements to make up the Gateway, taking off from Launch Complex 39A at Nasa’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Specifically, the company will provide launch services for two modules of the future space station: the Power and Propulsion Element (PPE) and the Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO). Nasa describes these as the “found...