NASA, which was the first to face a complaint about a piece of space debris crashing into a house, recently revealed full details of what happened. Gateway is the first giant space station to orbit the Moon. for flights into deep space. A structure that the agency has been working on for some time and is part of the Artemis architecture, which aims to return humans to the lunar surface.
NASA published a video lasting about one and a half minutes. detailed 3D animation of your Gateway project, humanity’s first station in lunar orbit. A video in which the US space agency decided to show all the modules and structural components from different angles against the backdrop of the darkness of space.
A space station that, beginning with the Artemis IV mission in 2028, will house international teams of astronauts conducting scientific research and preparing for missions to the Moon’s South Pole region. the first people to settle in deep space. In a statement on its website, NASA provided more details about the elements featured in the video.
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One of them is the “Power and Motion Element”, which will make Gateway the most powerful solar-powered spacecraft ever launched. The module will use solar energy to power the space station’s subsystems and ionize xenon gas to create thrust that will support the station’s unique polar orbit around the Moon. And then there’s HALO(Housing and logistics outpost), which is the Gateway command and control node and which will provide communications between the Earth and the lunar surface using the ESA (European Space Agency) Lunar Link system.
HALO will also house life support systems, simulators and scientific payload banks. Another element that appears in the video is the Lunar I-Hab, a system provided by ESA with the participation of Hardware from JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) and which will contain environmental control and life support systems, bedrooms and kitchenamong other functions.
While Lunar View, also from ESA, will have power and propulsion element refueling capabilities, Luggage compartment and large windows. Gateway will also be equipped with a crew and science gateway provided by the Mohammad bin Rashid Space Center in the United Arab Emirates to transport crew and Hardware from inside the station into the vacuum of space.
The Gateway will also be equipped with the Canadarm3 advanced external robotic system provided by the CSA (Canadian Space Agency) and the Deep Space Logistics spacecraft, which will deliver cargo to the space station to support the Artemis mission. The first scientific payloads will study solar and cosmic radiation, a little-known phenomenon that is of major concern to people and equipment traveling into deep space, including Mars.
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The payloads seen in this video are ERSA (European Radiation Sensor Array), provided by ESA., which is connected to the power and propulsion element; and HERMES (Heliophysical Environmental and Radiation Measurements Experimental Facility), led by NASA and associated with HALO. There is also a third radiation research payload, IDA (Internal Dosimeter Array), provided by ESA and JAXA, which will be part of HALO.
The Orion spacecraft is also shown in the video. docked at the airlock for crew and science; and it will carry international astronaut teams and three modules (Lunar I-Hab, Lunar View, and the Crew and Science Gateway) to the Gateway. The video also includes the Human Landing System (HLS), which will transport astronauts to and from the South Pole region of the Moon.