NASA uses GPS on the moon for the first time
“On Earth we can use GNSS signals to navigate in everything from smartphones to airplanes,” Kevin Coggins, deputy associate ...
Astronomers find Saturn has 128 more moons in rare discovery
Earlier this week, Saturn gained a whopping 128 new official moons, as the International Astronomical Union recognised ...
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NASA Moon tech taps into Earth’s GPS from 225,000 miles away in a historic first
On March 3rd, at 2:00 AM Eastern time, history was made. LuGRE successfully acquired and tracked signals from GPS and Galileo ...
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Firefly's Blue Ghost lands on moon and will attempt to tap into Earth GPS
and now after month-and-a-half long journey to the moon, the 6.6-foot-tall lander will have 14 days of sunlight to complete ...
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NASA Successfully Tracks GPS Signals on the Moon in Groundbreaking Navigation Test
The LuGRE initiative demonstrates GNSS signal acquisition on the Moon, marking a pivotal advancement in lunar navigation for ...
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Blue Ghost spacecraft makes second-ever commercial landing on the moon
The second-ever commercial landing on the moon comes amid a flurry of lunar exploration activity that will see around a dozen ...
NASA Detected GPS Signals From 243,000 Miles Away... on the Moon
As part of the Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment (LuGRE) experiment, NASA and the Italian Space Agency kickstarted a new era of ...
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Scientists Find Strongest Evidence Yet of a Hidden Ocean Beneath Jupiter’s Moon Callisto
Astronomers have uncovered new evidence that Jupiter’s moon Callisto likely harbors a massive underground ocean, potentially ...
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Satnav systems built for Earth used by Blue Ghost lander as it approached the Moon
An experimental module attached to Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost Moon lander successfully used Earth's orbiting satnav ...