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Lunar Gateway Station - NASA
April 1 , 2024
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- NASA, along with a suite of international and private partners, has plans to build a small space station Called Lunar Gateway.
- The current plan is to place Gateway in a near-rectilinear halo orbit, or NRHO.
- This fuel-efficient orbit takes advantage of neutral gravity points generated by the Earth and the Moon.
- NRHO is highly elliptical, so the space station will come to within approximately 1,865 miles (3,000 kilometers) of the Moon during its closest approach but then travel out to a distance of 43,500 miles (70,000 km).
- The European Space Agency (ESA) says Gateway will support four astronauts for 90-day stays.
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