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NASA uses GPS on the moon for the first time
Blue Ghost’s LuGRE system paves the way for astronauts navigating the lunar surface.
One solution could be transmitting data from the Global Navigation Satellite System(GNSS) to the lunar surface in order to autonomously measure time, velocity, and position. That’s what mission engineers from NASA and the Italian Space Agency hoped to demonstrate through the Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment (LuGRE), one of the 10 projects packed aboard Blue Ghost. LuGRE relied on two GNSS constellations, GPS and Galileo, which triangulate positioning based on dozens of medium Earth orbit satellites that provide real-time tracking data.
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