With Gateway likely gone, where will lunar landers rendezvous with Orion?
Summary
Ars Technica discusses the Artemis program’s shift away from the Lunar Gateway and the ongoing challenge of ensuring lunar landers rendezvous with Orion. It covers NASA’s push to accelerate Artemis III, potential orbital strategies (NRHO vs EPO/CoLA), and the roles of Starship and Blue Moon MK2, highlighting hardware readiness and launch cadence as key uncertainties for a Moon return by the end of the decade.