{"id":18788,"date":"2017-09-27T23:18:09","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T15:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/russia-gets-on-board-with-nasa-to-look-into-deep-space-gateway-in-lunar-orbit\/"},"modified":"2017-09-27T23:18:09","modified_gmt":"2017-09-27T15:18:09","slug":"russia-gets-on-board-with-nasa-to-look-into-deep-space-gateway-in-lunar-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/russia-gets-on-board-with-nasa-to-look-into-deep-space-gateway-in-lunar-orbit\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia gets on board with NASA to look into Deep Space Gateway in lunar orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An artist\u2019s conception from Boeing shows its Deep Space Gateway. (Boeing Illustration)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The space station band is getting back together again: Russia and NASA today signed a joint statement voicing support for a Deep Space Gateway in lunar orbit that\u2019s designed to serve as a jumping-off point for beyond-Earth exploration.<\/p>\n

To be fair, that\u2019s what they once said about the International Space Station as well. But NASA envisions the gateway as taking advantage of other technologies more suited to deep-space exploration, including its Orion capsule and heavy-lift Space Launch System.<\/p>\n

The current plan calls for the Earth-orbiting space station to wind down in the 2020s, at the same time that the SLS is delivering the first components of the Deep Space Gateway to a region between Earth and the moon known as cislunar space.<\/p>\n

NASA is working on concept studies for the DSG space station with six commercial partners in its NextSTEP-2 program \u2014 Bigelow Aerospace, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Orbital ATK, Sierra Nevada Corp. and Nanoracks.<\/p>\n