Pretty neat to see that there’s actual progress being made on lunar gateway, especially with all the setbacks and delays experienced thus far on Artemis.
NASA Welcomes Gateway Lunar Space Station’s HALO Module to US
Pretty neat to see that there’s actual progress being made on lunar gateway, especially with all the setbacks and delays experienced thus far on Artemis.
NASA Welcomes Gateway Lunar Space Station’s HALO Module to US
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That’s a dead man walking. I wonder where the modules will end up once Gateway is cancelled.
Lunar Gateway is like the one NASA project I was hoping would get DOGE’d
I still don’t get what it is supposed to be for? Like, there is still not one mission profile it is necessary for?
I was always hopeful that this was going to be a first step leading towards a manned space station orbiting Mars. There’s all this talk lately about how unsafe Mars could be for humans, so it would be cool if we had a very nice orbital space station manned with scientists performing experiments, who could send down drone’s that they virtually pilot to collect samples and perform experiments on the surface and then come back up.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
|Fewer Letters|More Letters|
|——-|———|—|
|[HALO](/r/Space/comments/1jrh7r9/stub/mlf4j68 “Last usage”)|Habitation and Logistics Outpost|
|[LEO](/r/Space/comments/1jrh7r9/stub/mlfh7gq “Last usage”)|Low Earth Orbit (180-2000km)|
| |Law Enforcement Officer (most often mentioned during transport operations)|
|[MMOD](/r/Space/comments/1jrh7r9/stub/mlfuvab “Last usage”)|Micro-Meteoroids and Orbital Debris|
|[MSFC](/r/Space/comments/1jrh7r9/stub/mlfyrf6 “Last usage”)|Marshall Space Flight Center, Alabama|
|[PPE](/r/Space/comments/1jrh7r9/stub/mlfdwfc “Last usage”)|Power and Propulsion Element|
|[SLS](/r/Space/comments/1jrh7r9/stub/mlfyrf6 “Last usage”)|Space Launch System heavy-lift|
|[TLI](/r/Space/comments/1jrh7r9/stub/mlfyrf6 “Last usage”)|Trans-Lunar Injection maneuver|
|Jargon|Definition|
|——-|———|—|
|[cislunar](/r/Space/comments/1jrh7r9/stub/mlfyrf6 “Last usage”)|Between the Earth and Moon; within the Moon’s orbit|
|[cryogenic](/r/Space/comments/1jrh7r9/stub/mlfyrf6 “Last usage”)|Very low temperature fluid; materials that would be gaseous at room temperature/pressure|
| |(In re: rocket fuel) Often synonymous with hydrolox|
|hydrolox|Portmanteau: liquid hydrogen fuel, liquid oxygen oxidizer|
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Unfortunate that this is probably going to end up sitting on the ground as there’s no chance Gateway gets developed as it’s a complete waste.