IN 2020 In 2016, NASA selected SpaceX for the Gateway Logistics Services program, a commercial service for transporting cargo to and from the Gateway, similar to commercial cargo services for the International Space Station. SpaceX's proposal included a variant of the Dragon spacecraft called the Dragon XL.
Development of this service progressed slowly, partly due to delays in the Gateway program. NASA has given SpaceX permission to continue the first Gateway logistics mission 2023 year. Manager of the Deep Space Logistics program at NASA's Kennedy Space Center noted, that NASA was evaluating the potential change last year, proposed by SpaceX in its Gateway logistics architecture, however, they did not reveal the details. Work on Gateway logistics stalled last year after the administration's budget proposal for 2026 The financial year, which involved canceling Gateway. However, Congress ultimately funded the program in the Budget Reconciliation Act. As of today, the agency is at a crossroads with these two potential architectures from SpaceX, as NASA awaits policy guidance on how to proceed. These instructions, probably, will appear shortly after the Artemis mission 2.
The Deep Space Logistics program manager noted, that successful logistics require transport throughout cislunar space. NASA is also considering ideas for demonstration missions, to try to further develop this market and allow several companies to perform logistics deliveries in cislunar space.
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