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European Space Agency (ESA)Manufacturer
European Space Agency (ESA)Artemis/BSAT-2b
7/12/2001
SpaceX is on contract to provide the human landing system that will ferry Artemis astronauts from lunar orbit to the surface.
The Gateway is scheduled to be assembled in lunar orbit over the course of this decade and will support sustained human return to the Moon as part of Artemis.
Bill Gerstenmaier supported managing Artemis within the existing Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate and planned organizational changes within HEO to give Artemis clear authorities to work directly with other mission directorates.
NASA awarded contracts in June to Axiom Space and Collins Aerospace to provide spacesuits to NASA for both International Space Station and Artemis lunar missions.
Blue Origin's first Blue Moon landing could occur ahead of SpaceX's Starship lunar lander for the Artemis program.
NASA's commercial resupply missions to the International Space Station provide scientific data that contributes to testing technologies for the Artemis lunar missions and beyond.
India’s Chandrayaan 2 orbiter provides imagery and radar data that NASA is leveraging to filter Artemis landing site candidates.
Launch Complex 39B and the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center, facilities built for Apollo, are still in use and will be used to assemble and launch Artemis vehicles.
The House passed a commerce, justice and science (CJS) spending bill in June as part of a minibus of several appropriations bills that did not include the $1,600,000,000 in additional spending for Artemis.
NASA is working with Boeing to finalize a contract within the next year for as many as 10 SLS core stages with the Exploration Upper Stage introduced for Artemis 4.
Blue Origin, Dynetics, and SpaceX won Human Landing System awards from NASA in April to develop lunar landers for the Artemis missions.
Of the 51,400,000,000 JPY earmarked for Artemis participation, 37,000,000,000 JPY is allocated to develop a new space station resupply vehicle dubbed HTV-X.
The Biden administration expressed support for continuing NASA’s Artemis lunar exploration program in the weeks after taking office in January 2021.
The International Lunar Research Station (ILRS) is planned to be developed concurrently but separately from the United States’ Artemis lunar exploration program.
The ARTEMIS solution includes Google Earth Enterprise Platform (GEEP)–equipped laptops containing custom globes of mission areas of interest built from satellite imagery and other geospatial intelligence.
JAXA will recruit astronaut candidates for the first time in 13 years as part of efforts to support the NASA-led Artemis lunar exploration program.
Space Micro has multiple active contracts to provide X-band transponders for two lunar missions selected under NASA’s Artemis program.
NASA could be overestimating the time available to develop and implement the necessary training framework for the Artemis missions.
NASA's astronaut corps could fall below the minimum manifest requirement needed to support International Space Station and Artemis missions as soon as 2023.
The Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) is a cubesat mission to test operations in the near-rectilinear halo orbit (NRHO) around the Moon that will be used by NASA’s Artemis missions, including the lunar Gateway.