Gateway PPE & HALO
NextGo for Prop LoadT-35:00
Time to launch
Vehicle
Falcon Heavy
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Provider
SpaceX
Profile →USA • Founded 2002
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Mission Brief
The Power and Propulsion Element (PPE) and Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO) are the foundational elements of NASA's lunar-orbiting space station "Gateway". The PPE is a 60-kilowatt class solar electric propulsion spacecraft that also will provide power, high-speed communications, attitude control and the capability to move the Gateway to different lunar orbits. The HALO is the pressurized living quarters where astronauts who visit the Gateway, often on their way to the Moon, will work. It will provide command and control and serve as the docking hub for the outpost. HALO will support science investigations, distribute power, provide communications for visiting vehicles and lunar surface expeditions, and supplement the life support systems aboard Orion, NASA’s spacecraft that will deliver Artemis astronauts to the Gateway.
Mission Timeline
0 / 220%Go for Prop Load
Launch director gives the go to begin fueling
- Go for Prop LoadT-35:0011:25 PM UTC
- RP-1 Loading BeginsT-35:0011:25 PM UTC
- Stage 1 LOX Loading BeginsT-35:0011:25 PM UTC
- Stage 2 LOX Loading BeginsT-16:0011:44 PM UTC
- Engine Chill BeginsT-07:0011:53 PM UTC
- Flight Computer Final ChecksT-01:0011:59 PM UTC
- Tanks Pressurize for FlightT-01:0011:59 PM UTC
- Strongback Retract BeginsT-00:4511:59 PM UTC
- Engine Ignition Sequence StartsT-00:0311:59 PM UTC
Launch Site
Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Schedule History
No delays or schedule changes recorded.
