We would like to express our special thanks of gratitude to our teacher

Seema ma’am who gave us the golden opportunity to do this wonderful

project on the topic THE MOON which also helped us in doing a lot of
Research and we came to know about so many new things we are really
thankful to them.
Secondly we would also like to thank our friends, Arnav , Aarush and
Shivansh who helped us a lot in finalizing this project within the limited time
 Lunar Orbital Platform Gateway
 Participating Space Stations
 Price Of Satellite And Whole Mission
 2019: A Start For LOP-G
 Importance Of Halo Orbit
 Benefits Of LOP-G To Mankind
 Keshav

Lunar Orbital Platform – Gateway (LOP-G) is a proposed space

station in lunar orbit intended to serve as a solar-powered
communications hub, science laboratory, short-term habitation
module, and holding area for rovers and other robots.[1]While the
project is led by NASA, the Gateway is meant to be developed,
serviced, and utilized in collaboration with commercial and
international partners. It will serve as the staging point for robotic and
crewed exploration of the lunar south pole, and is the proposed
staging point for NASA's Deep Space Transport concept
• NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine told reporters that the cost
of the gateway won't be nearly as much as the cost of the crewed
Apollo missions in the 1960s. NASA's current budget is now
about 0.5 percent of annual federal funds, compared to its former
height of 4.5 percent in the mid-1960s. The agency plans to begin
the Gateway project without drawing on increased federal funding.
And the final budget of this whole mission will be 450 million US
dollars .
KESHAV
• Gateway development includes all of the International Space
Station partners: ESA, NASA, Roscosmos, JAXA, and
CSA. The International Space Exploration Coordination
Group (ISECG), which is composed of 14 space agencies
including NASA, has concluded that LOP-G will be critical in
expanding a human presence to the Moon, Mars, and deeper into
the Solar System which will be known as the deep space gateway
SHIVANSH
Shivansh
AARUSH
News of March 3, 2018 –
• The year 2019 should mark the departure of the Lunar Orbital
Platform-Gateway project. Indeed the first contract for the
construction of modules of the Lunar Orbital Platform Gateway
should be signed next year. It is the propulsion and power supply
module that should benefit from the first real financing. Then come
the manned module in 2022, the elements of the station should be
launched by the SLS and a commercial launcher in the same order.
If all goes as planned, the four modules of the station will be
operational in 2026. NASA’s international partners will then
conduct missions carrying four astronauts for a few weeks in the
lunar neighbourhood. First picture-construction. 2nd picture-lop-g
ARNAV
ARNAV

• Many have hoped the next triumph could come in the form of a manned
mission to Mars or the construction of a lunar base. But these projects
have taken a backseat to NASA’s proposed Lunar Orbital Platform-
Gateway (LOP-G).
• According to NASA officials, the outpost would orbit the moon and
serve as a staging area for missions deeper into space. The idea has
been endorsed by the Trump administration. During a speech last month
at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Vice President Mike Pence
said the administration hopes to have an American crew aboard the
LOP-G by 2024.
• But critics have emerged with pointed criticisms of the project. Many
have noted that the proposal lacks a clearly defined scientific goal.
 SIDHARTH

Robert W. Farquhar first used the name "halo" for these orbits in his 1968
Ph.D. thesis.[1] Farquhar advocated using spacecraft in a halo orbit on
the far side of the Moon (Earth–Moon L2) as a communications relay
station for an Apollo mission to the far side of the Moon. A spacecraft in
such a halo orbit would be in continuous view of both the Earth and the far
side of the Moon. In the end, no relay satellite was launched for Apollo,
since all landings were on the near side of the Moon.[2]
The first mission to use a halo orbit was ISEE-3, launched in 1978. It
traveled to the Sun–Earth L1 point and remained there for several years.
The next mission to use a halo orbit was Solar and Heliospheric
Observatory (SOHO), a joint ESA and NASA mission to study the
Sun, which arrived at Sun–Earth in 1996. It used an orbit similar to
ISEE-3.
HALO ORBIT
Sidharth
Sidharth and Keshav PROPES TIMELINE OF LOP-G LAUNCH AS PARTS

Year Vehicle assembly objective Mission name Launch vehicle Human/robotic elements

Launch of the Power and

Q4 2022 TBA Commercial launch vehicle Uncrewed
Propulsion Element (PPE)

ESPRIT and US Utilization

2023 TBA Commercial launch vehicle Uncrewed
Module

Three components of an
2023 TBA Commercial launch vehicles Uncrewed
expendable lunar lander

Orion docking to the Gateway,

Space Launch System, Block
2024 followed by a lunar landing Artemis 3 Crewed
1B
and return to the Gateway

Orion will deliver the U.S.

Space Launch System, Block
2025 Habitation module; lunar Artemis 4 Crewed
1B
landing.
Orion will deliver U.S. Habitat; Space Launch System, Block
2026 Artemis 5 Crewed
lunar landing 1B
Orion will deliver the first
Space Launch System, Block
2027 logistics module and the Artemis 6 Crewed
1B
robotic arm
Space Launch System, Block
2028 Deliver a logistics module Artemis 8 Uncrewed
1B