{"id":52614,"date":"2020-10-27T14:48:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T18:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/?migration=converted-node-465811"},"modified":"2023-07-26T16:01:35","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T20:01:35","slug":"nasa-european-space-agency-formalize-artemis-gateway-partnership","status":"publish","type":"press-release","link":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/news-release\/nasa-european-space-agency-formalize-artemis-gateway-partnership\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA, European Space Agency Formalize Artemis Gateway Partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NASA and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\" rel=\"noopener\">ESA (European Space Agency)<\/a> have finalized an agreement to collaborate on the Artemis <a href=\"https:\/\/nasa.gov\/gateway\" rel=\"noopener\">Gateway<\/a>. This agreement is an important element in a broad effort by the United States to engage international partners in sustainable lunar exploration and to demonstrate technologies necessary for a future human mission to Mars. The agreement, signed Tuesday, marks NASA\u2019s first formal commitment to launch international crew members to the lunar vicinity as part of NASA\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/specials\/artemis\/\">Artemis missions<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The agreement is a critical part of NASA\u2019s efforts to lead an unprecedented global coalition to the Moon. Additional Gateway agreements with other international partners will be executed in the near future, further contributing to the creation of a dynamic and sustainable lunar exploration architecture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under this agreement, ESA will contribute habitation and refueling modules, along with enhanced lunar communications, to the Gateway. The refueling module also will include crew observation windows. In addition to providing the hardware, ESA will be responsible for operations of the Gateway elements it provides. ESA also provides two additional European Service Modules (ESMs) for NASA\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/exploration\/systems\/orion\/index.html\">Orion spacecraft<\/a>. These ESMs will propel and power Orion in space on future Artemis missions and provide air and water for its crew.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis partnership leverages the outstanding cooperation established by the International Space Station as we push forward to the Moon,\u201d said NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine. \u201cGateway will continue to expand NASA\u2019s cooperation with international partners like ESA, ensuring the Artemis program results in the safe and sustainable exploration of the Moon after the initial human lunar landing and beyond.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n<div id=\"\" class=\"hds-media hds-module wp-block-image\"><div class=\"margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline\"><div class=\"hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto\"><figure class=\"hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-none \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/att00003.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/att00003.jpg?w=640\" class=\"attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048\" alt=\"NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine (on screen) and ESA (European Space Agency) Director General Jan W\u00f6rner\" style=\"transform: scale(1); transform-origin: 50% 50%; object-position: 50% 50%; object-fit: cover;\" block_context=\"nasa-block\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/att00003.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/att00003.jpg?resize=300,225 300w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/att00003.jpg?resize=400,300 400w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/att00003.jpg?resize=600,450 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" loading=\"eager\" \/><\/a><\/figure><figcaption class=\"hds-caption padding-y-2\"><div class=\"hds-caption-text p-sm margin-0\">NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine (on screen) and ESA (European Space Agency) Director General Jan W\u00f6rner following the signing of an agreement to collaborate on NASA\u2019s Artemis Gateway. <strong>Credits: ESA<\/strong><\/div><\/figcaption><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<p>The International Habitation module (I-Hab) includes components Japan intends to contribute and two docking ports where human landing systems can aggregate. The habitation module also will house the outpost\u2019s Environmental Control and Life Support System (ECLSS), contain accommodations for internal and external science experiments, and provide additional crew work and living space. I-Hab\u2019s ECLSS will augment Gateway\u2019s life support system capabilities provided by the docked Orion, enabling longer durations at the Gateway and support more robust Artemis missions to the lunar surface. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Gateway is designed to be supplemented by additional capabilities provided by our international partners to support sustainable exploration,\u201d said Kathy Lueders, NASA associate administrator for the Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters. \u201cGateway is going to give us access to explore more of the lunar surface than ever before and we\u2019re pleased that partners like ESA will join us on these groundbreaking efforts.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Gateway will be assembled in orbit around the Moon as a staging point and enabling platform for missions to the lunar surface, Mars, and other deep space destinations. Approximately one-sixth the size of the International Space Station, the Gateway will function as a way station located tens of thousands of miles from the lunar surface, in a Near Rectilinear Halo Orbit, from which NASA and its international and commercial partners will be able to springboard robotic and human expeditions to and around the Moon and on to Mars. It will serve as a rendezvous point for astronauts traveling to lunar orbit aboard NASA\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/exploration\/systems\/sls\/index.html\">Space Launch System (SLS)<\/a> and Orion prior to transit to low-lunar orbit and the surface of the Moon.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cGateway is the physical manifestation of the international and commercial partnerships that will be the hallmark of the Artemis era of exploration,\u201d said Mike Gold, NASA acting associate administrator for the Office of International and Interagency Relations at NASA Headquarters. \u201cArtemis will harness the largest and most diverse human space exploration coalition in history, and the signing of this MOU is the first step in what will be a historic journey of discovery.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Along with procuring commercial services to deliver NASA astronauts to the final leg of the journey to the lunar surface, NASA has contracted with U.S. industry to develop the first two Gateway components, the integrated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/press-release\/nasa-awards-artemis-contract-for-lunar-gateway-power-propulsion\">Power and Propulsion Element<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/press-release\/nasa-awards-northrop-grumman-artemis-contract-for-gateway-crew-cabin\">Habitation and Logistics Outpost<\/a>, as well as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/press-release\/nasa-awards-artemis-contract-for-gateway-logistics-services\/\">logistics resupply<\/a> for Gateway. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In March, the first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/nasa-selects-first-science-instruments-to-send-to-gateway\/\">two scientific investigations<\/a> to fly aboard the Gateway were selected, one from NASA and the other from ESA. ESA developed the European Radiation Sensors Array, or ERSA, and NASA\u2019s Goddard Space Flight Center is building the Heliophysics Environmental and Radiation Measurement Experiment Suite, or HERMES. The two mini weather stations will split up the work, with ERSA monitoring space radiation at higher energies with a focus on astronaut protection, while HERMES monitors lower energies critical to scientific investigations of the Sun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All of Gateway\u2019s international partners will collaborate to share the scientific data that will be transmitted to Earth. Additional scientific cooperative payloads will be selected to fly aboard the Gateway in the future. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cScience will play a critical role in the Artemis program\u201d, said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington. \u201cBetween NASA\u2019s HERMES and ESA\u2019s ERSA, these and future payloads on the Gateway will help us learn more about space weather and protecting astronauts even as our work to land commercial payloads on the Moon helps advance lunar science and human exploration on the surface of the Moon.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to supporting lunar surface missions, the Gateway will support activities that will test technologies needed for human missions to Mars. Using the Gateway, NASA will demonstrate remote management and long-term reliability of autonomous spacecraft systems and other technologies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Gateway will enable sustained Artemis operations while also serving as a catalyst for research and demonstrating new technologies, taking advantage of the unique environment in lunar orbit,\u201d said Dan Hartman, Gateway program manager at NASA\u2019s Johnson Space Center in Houston. \u201cESA\u2019s impactful contribution will enable longer crew duration stays around the Moon and provide unique capabilities necessary to support its operations.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Learn more about NASA\u2019s Gateway program at:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/nasa.gov\/gateway\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Learn more about NASA\u2019s Artemis program at:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/artemis\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>-end-<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Gina Anderson<br \/>\nHeadquarters, Washington<br \/>\n202-358-1160<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:gina.n.anderson@nasa.gov\">gina.n.anderson@nasa.gov<\/a><br \/>\nIsidro Reyna \/ Rachel Kraft<br \/>\nJohnson Space Center, Houston<br \/>\n281-483-5111<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:isidro.r.reyna@nasa.gov\">isidro.r.reyna@nasa.gov<\/a> \/ <a href=\"mailto:rachel.h.kraft@nasa.gov\">rachel.h.kraft@nasa.gov<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA and ESA (European Space Agency) have finalized an agreement to collaborate on the Artemis Gateway. This agreement is an important element in a broad effort by the United States to engage international partners in sustainable lunar exploration and to demonstrate technologies necessary for a future human mission to Mars. 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