For me the change in the upper stage to a Centaur V had clearly indicated that SLS is now exclusively for crewed launches of Orion only, no longer planned to carry any other cargo. If the Gateway survives this in some form, they'd be launched on other rockets instead, same with the HLS long...
Either the Lunar Gateway modules be repurposed as surface base habitats, integrated onto commercial space stations, or the Gateway itself might survive in some form as Isaacman did hint on using them for nuclear tug tests....who knows
The upper stage for SLS from Artemis IV and beyond, as we all know, is no longer the massive EUS. As of today, and was previously hinted at a new render from Jared Isaacman's announcement, they'd instead use the Vulcan Centaur upper stage going forwards to all SLS launches...
Salyut 6 images are consistent with a green early Soyuz spacecraft as well
That's Soyuz 31 photographed by the crew of Soyuz 30 (forgot if this was taken during arrival to or departure from Salyut 6)
The official renders suggest that an arm is attached onto the Hab-1 during launch. There were two possible alternative scenarios:
It might be also possible that the arm is instead the reused Canadarm2 from the ISS, although this is from older plans in 2020, not sure if they will go through with...
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