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Chapter 3: Gateway

A rotating ring and a fixed truss, 750,000 km out, where every cargo changes hands.

What it shows. Spin gravity; rotating and fixed sections; the transport network.

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The engineering behind it

• Nuclear

  Nuclear-thermal rockets

  The Gateway shuttle runs 929 MW of reactor heat through liquid methane from Kraken Mare and throws the hot gas out of its nozzle.