{"id":62378,"date":"2019-05-24T19:19:24","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T11:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/maxar-to-build-1st-element-of-nasas-lunar-gateway\/"},"modified":"2019-05-24T19:19:24","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T11:19:24","slug":"maxar-to-build-1st-element-of-nasas-lunar-gateway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/maxar-to-build-1st-element-of-nasas-lunar-gateway\/","title":{"rendered":"Maxar to Build 1st Element of NASA\u2019s Lunar Gateway"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Maxar Technologies<\/strong> was selected by <strong>NASA<\/strong> to build and perform a spaceflight demonstration of the lunar Gateway\u2019s power and propulsion element spacecraft. <strong>Blue Origin<\/strong> and <strong>Draper<\/strong> will join the Maxar-led team in designing, building and operating the spacecraft through the demonstration period. The power and propulsion element is a key component to NASA\u2019s overall plans to land American astronauts on the surface of the Moon by 2024, and will be the first segment of the Gateway tested in space.<\/p>\n<p>Maxar previously conducted a four-month study to develop affordable and innovative electric-propulsion-enabled concepts for the power and propulsion element spacecraft. Building on the successful completion of the study, Maxar has been selected to proceed with development. The power and propulsion element will provide power, maneuvering, attitude control, communications systems and initial docking capabilities. Maxar is currently targeting launch of the element on a commercial rocket by late 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaxar Space Solutions is proud to play a critical role in enabling American astronauts to build a sustainable presence on the Moon. Our power and propulsion element partnership enables NASA to leverage Maxar\u2019s commercial capabilities to cost-effectively expedite plans for sustainable exploration of the Moon, while also providing significant benefits to American industry,\u201d said Dan Jablonsky, Maxar CEO. \u201cAs a valuable part of Maxar, our Space Solutions group serves the global commercial and U.S. government satellite market.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maxar Technologies was selected by NASA to build and perform a spaceflight demonstration of the lunar Gateway\u2019s power and propulsion element spacecraft. Blue Origin and Draper will join the Maxar-led team in designing, building and operating the spacecraft through the demonstration period. The power and propulsion element is a key component to NASA\u2019s overall plans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62378"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}