SMRTR Science & EngineeringMar 8, 2026Ars Technica

With Gateway likely gone, where will lunar landers rendezvous with Orion?

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NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman is revamping the Artemis moon program to accelerate lunar landings, eliminating the problematic Gateway space station and allowing SpaceX's Starship and Blue Origin's Blue Moon landers to rendezvous with Orion in more fuel-efficient orbits closer to the lunar surface. Blue Origin has responded by developing a simplified three-launch mission architecture that could potentially enable moon landings by 2028.

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