NASA Acquires GPS Signal On Moon

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Earth-orbiting GNSS may enable navigation on the Moon and in cislunar space, NASA says.

Credit: NASA
NASA and the Italian Space Agency have acquired GPS and Galileo global navigation satellite system (GNSS) signals on the Moon via a receiver aboard Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander. The space agencies claim that the Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment (LuGRE) became the first technology...
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