News Archive / Tagged: Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway

• NASA Administrator Bridenstine: ‘We’re not going to do flags and footprints again’

  Derek RichardsonAugust 30th, 2018

  In the first-ever televised NASA Advisory Council meeting, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine described the United States' latest effort to return to the Moon as one about sustainability.

• Aerojet Rocketdyne demonstrates electric propulsion capabilities for future deep space missions

  Derek RichardsonAugust 29th, 2018

  An early systems integration test was performed by Aerojet Rocketdyne for NASA’s Advanced Electric Propulsion System (AEPS) program, which includes technology that could be used on NASA’s proposed lunar orbiting outpost in the early 2020s, the company said.

• International agencies open deep-space operating standards for public comment

  Bart LeahyMarch 7th, 2018

  On March 1, NASA, ESA, and the other partnering International Space Station agencies opened their joint International Deep Space Interoperability Standards for public comment. The documents could further global cooperation on crewed space exploration efforts beyond Earth orbit by setting common standards for projects like NASA’s planned Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway.