HALO

Thanks to Stephen Green at Reynolds' side of PJMedia, Northrop Grumman passes muster on a high-earth-orbit habitat... design. 2023 for the product.

They want this "HALO" as a waystation to the Moon. Its supplies last over the synodic month; then we need to supply it again. That's by Lockheed's annoyingly-named "Orion" or maybe SpaceX's Falcon 9, much as I love Rocket Lab.

HALO really should be orbiting alongside the Earth-Luna propellant depot along with other supplies. And a factory. It's not the main factory; that one was proposed for LEO and I like it there. That lower factory could boost some of those dead rockets further up to HALO.

I do hope Northrop are shoring HALO against radiation. Or are they running this thing between Van Allens ~15 Mm? I think the 35786 km geosynchronous orbit is actually in the outer Belt, albeit outer-edge of that.

IT'S SH!T 11/14/21: I just looked this up, they're selling to the Gateway. Since there will be no Gateway there will be no HALO.