Posted on Tuesday June 6th, 2023 by julien
A critical design review occurred in April for the communications antenna ESA is supplying for NASA’s Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO) on the Gateway. Time to catch up with ESA’s Esprit project lead Luca Stagnaro on this milestone. Luca is responsible for both elements that make up Esprit, the Esprit HALO lunar communications system (known […]
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Posted on Friday January 13th, 2023 by julien
Introducing the team that is designing and building the ESA modules for the lunar Gateway. Young Graduate Trainee and engineer Tatjana Mandil.
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Posted on Friday March 12th, 2021 by julien
ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst and Luca Parmitano donned virtual reality headsets at the European Astronaut Centre last week to help prepare for the Preliminary Design Review of the International Habitat (I-Hab) module for the lunar Gateway. Thales Alenia Space teamed up ESA last week to review the habitat’s space, and who better to help design […]
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Posted on Wednesday March 10th, 2021 by laylan
A suite of radiation dosimeters is the latest scientific experiment approved for the Gateway, the next spacecraft to be assembled, inhabited and operated in the vicinity of the Moon.
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Posted on Friday March 5th, 2021 by julien
In late 2020, NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) finalised an agreement to collaborate on the Gateway, with ESA committing to contributing habitation and refueling modules and enhanced lunar communications. This agreement expands NASA’s long-time International Space Station partnership with the European agency to NASA’s Artemis program efforts. The Gateway will provide a sustainable, reusable, and reliable […]
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