The Moon’s planned first spaceport will have no runways, taxiways or gate announcements—NASA’s Gateway will follow an invisible orbit sculpted by the gravity of Earth and the Moon, and engineers have now published the first detailed strategies for keeping visiting spacecraft safely separated while they wait to dock.
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NASA's Gateway, planned as a lunar outpost, will operate in an orbit shaped by the combined gravity of Earth and the Moon rather than a fixed path. Engineers have published detailed strategies for keeping visiting spacecraft safely separated while they wait to dock, addressing how small errors could erase safety margins in that unstable orbit.
A new traffic-management study tests how Gateway and visiting spacecraft could wait in the same unstable lunar orbit without allowing small errors to erase their safety margin. The post The Moon’s planned first spaceport will have no runways, taxiways or gate announcements—NASA’s Gateway will follow an invisible orbit sculpted by the gravity of Earth and the Moon, and engineers have now published the first detailed strategies for keeping visiting spacecraft safely separated while they wait to dock. appeared first on Space Daily .
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