7/13/2021

NORTHROP MOON HOMES : SPACE ORBIT

 


Washington : Northrop Grumman Corp won a NASA contract worth $935 million to develop living quarters for the US space agency’s planned outpost in lunar orbit, the weapon maker said on Friday.

Astronauts will live and conduct research in the Habitation and Logistics Outpost [ HALO ] made by Northrop for the Lunar Gateway - a vital component of NASA's Artemis moon program.

China is also planning to set up a base in the south pole of the moon, and is deploying robotics expeditions to asteroids and Jupiter around 2030.

NASA and its commercial and international partners are building Gateway to support science investigations and enable surface landings at the moon, the agency said in a statement.

Northrop Grumman will be responsible for attaching and testing the integrated quarters with a solar propulsion module being developed.[Reuters]

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