Maxar Technologies has been chosen to build a solar-powered spacecraft for NASA’s Gateway lunar space stationNASA By Chelsea WhyteNASA is firming up its plans to build a space station called Gateway around the moon, a key piece of the new US mission to land astronauts on the moon’s south pole by 2024. The space agency announced that they have contracted with Colorado-based Maxar Technologies to build the power and propulsion element, a solar-powered spacecraft that will be able to manoeuvre the Gateway lunar space station around the moon. Maxar Technologies specialises in satellites and space robotics. “Think of …