News Archive / Tagged: lunar Gateway

• UPDATE: Contact with CAPSTONE re-established

  Derek RichardsonJuly 5th, 2022

  NASA’s CAPSTONE spacecraft, designed to pave the way for the Artemis program’s Lunar Gateway outpost, has “experienced communications issues.”

• NASA’s CAPSTONE pathfinder mission launched toward the Moon

  Theresa CrossJune 28th, 2022

  A small CubeSat called CAPSTONE is on its way to the Moon to evaluate a special orbit destined to be used for NASA’s Lunar Gateway space station.

• President requests $7.5B for NASA’s Artemis program in 2023

  Derek RichardsonMarch 28th, 2022

  President Biden’s fiscal year 2023 budget requests nearly an additional billion dollars over 2022’s enacted amount for NASA's Artemis lunar program.

• Boeing tests all-composite cryogenic propellant tank

  Theresa CrossFebruary 23rd, 2022

  At the end of 2021, Boeing completed a series of tests on a “large, fully-composite, linerless cryogenic tank” at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville Alabama.

• Lunar Gateway habitation module contract finalized

  Theresa CrossJuly 16th, 2021

  NASA and Northrop Grumman have finalized a contract for the living quarters of the Moon-orbiting Lunar Gateway for the Artemis program, the Habitation and Logistics Outpost.

• NASA’s CAPSTONE lunar mission to fly later this year

  Theresa CrossMay 13th, 2021

  Later this year, NASA plans to launch a CubeSat to test a special orbit around the Moon to verify its characteristics in advance of sending the Lunar Gateway there as early as 2024.

• Petition asks NASA to name Lunar Gateway after Michael Collins

  Theresa CrossMay 6th, 2021

  There is a Change.org petition to rename NASA’s Lunar Gateway after former Apollo astronaut Michael Collins, who died April 28, 2021, at age 90.

• New artwork released for SpaceX’s Dragon XL spacecraft

  Derek RichardsonMarch 27th, 2021

  NASA recently released new concept art for SpaceX’s Dragon XL cargo ship, which is being designed to service the space agency’s Lunar Gateway.

• NG-11 Cygnus released to begin multi-month post-ISS mission

  Derek RichardsonAugust 6th, 2019

  Northrop Grumman’s NG-11 Cygnus departed the ISS after a 109-day stay aboard the outpost to begin a multi-month free-flying secondary mission.

• Video: SpaceFlight Insider’s Space Bulletin for May 25, 2019

  Derek RichardsonMay 25th, 2019

  This week, SpaceX launched its first Starlink internet satellites and NASA awarded a contract to build the first piece of the agency’s Lunar Gateway.

• Lunar Gateway contract adds ‘power’ to Artemis program

  Derek RichardsonMay 23rd, 2019

  NASA awarded Maxar Technologies a contract for the first piece of the Lunar Gateway, which is designed to be a staging point for Moon-bound astronauts.

• NASA, Northrop Grumman finish testing cislunar habitat mockup

  Sean CostelloMay 15th, 2019

  NASA astronauts at the Johnson Space Center recently completed testing and evaluation of Northrop Grumman's Earth-based full-scale cislunar habitat mockup.

• Video: SpaceFlight Insider’s Space Bulletin for May 11, 2019

  Derek RichardsonMay 11th, 2019

  This week, Blue Origin unveiled its Blue Moon lander while SpaceX’s CRS-17 Dragon arrived at the International Space Station.

• NASA head answers agency questions about ‘Moon by 2024’ goal

  Derek RichardsonApril 2nd, 2019

  NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine told the agency what it'll take to accomplish the Trump administration's goal of returning humans to the Moon by 2024.

• Vice president: US astronauts on Moon within 5 years

  Derek RichardsonMarch 26th, 2019

  Vice President Pence lit a fire under the feet of all involved in returning astronauts to the Moon, telling NASA to do so by 2024 by "any means necessary."