Video showing what NASA’s lunar orbital station will look like

NASA has published a detailed 3D animation of its project. Gateway projectthe first space station to orbit the Moon for deep space missions, scheduled to launch later this decade.

The video, which lasts one and a half minutes and can be seen below these lines, shows its modules and structural elements from different angles against the backdrop of the darkness of the space.

From the mission Artemis 4 In 2028, international teams of astronauts living, conducting scientific research and preparing to fly to the South Pole region of the Gateway Moon will become the first humans to inhabit deep space.

This artistic computer animation depicts the appearance of the Gate in stunning detail. Featured gateway elements:

• Power and propulsion element, making Gateway the most powerful solar-electric spacecraft ever launched. The module will harness solar energy to power space station subsystems and ionize xenon gas to generate thrust that will support Gateway’s unique polar orbit around the Moon.
• HALO (Accommodation and Logistics Outpost), a gateway command and control node that provides communications between the Earth and the lunar surface using the Lunar Link system provided by ESA (European Space Agency). HALO will house life support systems, including simulators and scientific payload banks.
• Lunar I-bedprovided by ESA and with the participation Hardware from JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) will, among other things, house environmental control and life support systems, bedrooms and a kitchen.
• Lunar viewprovided by ESA, will have power and propulsion refueling capabilities, cargo storage and large windows.
• Airlock for crew and scienceprovided by the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Center of the United Arab Emirates, for the transportation of crew and Hardware from inside the Gate to the vacuum of space.
• Advanced external robotic system Canadarm3 courtesy of CSA (Canadian Space Agency).
• Spaceship Deep Space Logistics, which will deliver supplies to the Gate to support Artemis missions. Gateway’s first science payload will study solar and cosmic radiation, a poorly understood phenomenon that is a major concern for people and equipment traveling in deep space, including Mars. The payload seen in this video is the ERSA (European Radiation Sensor Array) provided by ESA and coupled to the power and propulsion element; and HERMES (Heliophysical Environmental and Radiation Measurements Experimental Facility), led by NASA and associated with HALO. A third science radiation payload, IDA (Internal Dosimeter Array), provided by ESA and JAXA, will reside inside HALO.

The video also shows Orion spacecraft docked at the crew and science airlock. Orion will carry international teams of astronauts and three modules (Lunar I-Hab, Lunar View, and the Crew and Science Gateway) to the Gateway space station.

Also included State system of landing people (HLS), which will transport astronauts to and from the South Pole region of the Moon. SpaceX And Blue Origin contracted to provide Starship HLS and Blue Moon HLS, respectively.