The 'cutting-edge experiment' will enable operational GNSS systems at the moon.🌑
NASA is preparing to test a new lunar navigation system that will connect to the Earth's Global Navigation Satellite System from the moon,The unprecedented mission will break a record for the most distant connection to GPS at roughly 238,000 miles from Earth's surface. It will be delivered to the moon for testing by Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander no earlier than 2024, NASA says.
GNSS is made up of satellite constellations that send positioning, timing and navigation signals down to Earth. The most common of all these is GPS, which is operated by the U.S. Space Force. Now, NASA's Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment , developed as part of a collaboration with the Italian Space Agency , will calculate the first location fixes from the moon in history.
"LuGRE is the latest effort in a long line of missions designed to expand high-altitude GNSS capabilities," said Fabio Dovis, LuGRE co-principal investigator at the Italian Space Agency."We've developed a cutting-edge experiment that will serve as the foundation for operational GNSS systems at the Moon.", during its trip to the moon. The receiver will also conduct a number of navigation experiments while in orbit around the moon before reaching the lunar surface.
The LuGRE mission is part of a wider effort to increase the effectiveness of GNSS and enable its use at ever-greater altitudes. In 2016, NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission used GPS at a record-breaking altitude of 43,500 miles above theEarth. In 2019, meanwhile, MMS broke its own record by fixing its location with GPS at an altitude of 116,300 miles, almost half the distance to the moon.
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