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The Sky This Week from March 21 to 28: Galilean moon action
Plus: Observe two stunning spirals, see Venus reappear as a morning star, and enjoy the Last Quarter Moon in the sky this ...
Firefly's Blue Ghost lands on moon and will attempt to tap into Earth GPS
Firefly's Blue Ghost lunar lander has a payload which will attempt to acquire a GPS signal from the moon, revolutionizing ...
Saturn now has 274 moons – but exactly what makes something a moon remains unclear
The number of known moons in our Solar System has been rising for centuries, but astronomers say it has probably peaked – 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 missions this year alone ...
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Firefly’s moon lander ends successful mission
Firefly said it had transmitted 119 GB of data back to Earth during the ... based GPS and European Galileo networks, proving something similar could be enabled on the moon in the future.
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Firefly's Blue Ghost lands on moon and will attempt to tap into Earth GPS
But for both GPS and Galileo the signals are a bit wider ... “So if there’s a GPS satellite flying on the opposite side of the Earth from the moon, then those signals are traveling past ...
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A NASA test just proved GPS signals can be picked up on the moon
The uncrewed robotic lander softly touched down on the moon on ... satellites in Earth’s Global Navigation Satellite System, which includes GPS used in the United States and Galileo, a similar ...
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LuGRE receiver captures GNSS signals in lunar orbit
The farthest signal detected came from the Galileo constellation at 67.79 Earth radii (approximately 432,384 km from the receiver). The experiment demonstrated GNSS functionality near the Moon, where ...