NASA Starts Up Gateway’s Power System for First Time - NASA

31 points smallaubergine

wow first Gateway news I've seen in a long time

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20 points jadebenn

There was an unoffical(?) blackout after the Trump budget proposal tried to cancel the program. Seems that blackout has finally been lifted.

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6 points joedotphp

Gateway was written into law in July with the "Big Beautiful Bill." Along with Artemis, 3, 4, and 5.

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5 points lumpkin2013

This is exciting. Imagine laser-based propulsion to the planets.

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8 points Pyrhan

I presume you meant "laser-based telecommunications"?

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5 points lumpkin2013

No like a solar sail type propulsion system except driven by laser. Check out this example that the planetary society prototyped in 2022. https://www.planetary.org/sci-tech/lightsail

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3 points Pyrhan

OK, but how's that related to Gateway?

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