Advanced Modeling Enhances Gateway’s Lunar Dust Defense

A man wearing a navy-blue shirt with a NASA logo leans closely toward a container inside a metallic testing chamber. He examines a cylindrical object with beige components and exposed wiring, while wearing black gloves.

Ahead of more frequent and intense contact with dust during Artemis missions, NASA is developing new strategies to protect equipment as astronauts travel between the Moon and spacecraft like Gateway, humanity’s first lunar space station.

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