How would an airport on the Moon work? Ambitious plans explained

Jump to contentAllNewsSportCultureLifestyleExperts from Nasa’s Johnson Space Center, Texas A&M University, and Purdue University have established a flight manual and rules of the road to manage growing space traffic around the Moon. The research aims to support upcoming lunar operations, including Nasa’s planned Gateway spaceport, which will act as a hub for regular takeoffs, landings, and deep-space exploration. Traffic control around the Moon will utilise a Near Rectilinear Halo Orbit, an egg-shaped trajectory influenced by both Earth and lunar gravity that maintains a continuous line of sight for communications. Computer simulations revealed that spacecraft can safely loiter in orbit while awaiting permission to land or depart by making minor manoeuvres to compensate for thruster and navigation errors. The findings, which offer a framework for safe cislunar navigation, will be published in the journal Acta Astronautica under the title Cislunar traffic management: Orbit maintenance and loitering in the Gateway NRHO. In fullExperts create rules for first ever airport in spaceMore bulletinsThank you for registeringPlease refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in

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