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The Habitat module from Gateway (Habitat and Logistics Outpost) comes on April 1, 2025 in Mesa, Arizona, after the trip from Italy, where Thales Alenia Space produced its main structure. | Credit: NASA/Josh Valcarcel
At the beginning of this month, NASA released a series of photos in which a newly arrived module for Gateway emerged, a small space station that the agency is supposed to start in 2027 to the Lunar Orbit.
This module is Halo (Outpost Logistics Outpost), which is used as a living and work area for astronauts on board Goal.
A freight plane flew it Halo module To the USA from Turin, Italy, where it was built by Thales Alenia. The cargo aircraft landed on April 1 at Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport in Mesa, Arizona.
An airport worker heads a cargo aircraft with two orange signal bars | on his parking space | Credit: NASA/Josh Valcarcel
The newly published photos give you a good feeling for the size of the lunar module, which takes up most of the room in the large loading point of the aircraft.
The next stop for the Halo module was the integration and test facility of Northrop Grumman in Gilbert, Arizona, where it is a final equipment. Northrop Grumman is one of the contractors who work on Nasas Artemis program The moon research, which sees the gate as an important piece of infrastructure.
The agency says that the lunar station “will help” to put a way of scientific discovery to the first occupation missions Mars“After NASA has built a sustainable human presence on the moon, the consequences – an important Artemis goal.
Technician in Thales Alenia Space in Turin, Italy, prepares Halo for transport to the USA. | Credit: Thales alenia room
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The NASA calls the Halo module a “core component” from Gateway. Apart from the provision of astronaut living rooms, the module offers a number of supply companies such as command and control, electricity distribution, communication and persecution. It will also enable research that support internal and external scientific payloads.
After Northrop Grumman has ended his Halo work, the module will go to the NASAS Kennedy Space Center in Florida. There it is integrated into the gateway power and drive element before a planned start of gateway Spaceex Falcon Heavy Rocket.
