Space Daily September 05, 2026 • 00:30

The Moon’s planned first spaceport will have no runways, taxiways or gate announcements—NASA’s Gateway will follow an invisible orbit sculpted by the gravity of Earth and the Moon, and engineers have now published the first detailed strategies for keeping - spacedaily.com

The Moon’s planned first spaceport will have no runways, taxiways or gate announcements—NASA’s Gateway will follow an invisible orbit sculpted by the gravity of Earth and the Moon, and engineers have now published the first detailed strategies for keeping - spacedaily.com

A new traffic-management study tests how Gateway and visiting spacecraft could wait in the same unstable lunar orbit without allowing small errors to erase their safety margin.

Gateway is often described as the Moon’s first spaceport, but almost nothing about it resembles an airport on Earth. There will be no runway, no holding pattern drawn against a fixed landscape and no… [+12779 chars]

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