Washington - Saba:
NASA and the Italian Space Agency succeeded in conducting an experiment to determine locations on the moon using the orbital space navigation systems GPS and Galileo.
It is worth noting that the devices of the American Blue Ghost probe, which landed last week on the surface of the moon, included the LuGRE device, as a receiver for signals received from the space navigation system, which includes the American GPS, the European Galileo, the Russian Glonass, and the Chinese BeiDou.
Kevin Coggins, director of the Space Communications and Navigation Program at NASA, said today, Thursday: "LuGRE showed that we can successfully receive and track GNSS signals on the moon. This is a very important discovery for lunar navigation, and we hope to use this capability for future missions."
He added: "The receiver reached the moon in operating mode, and immediately after landing, the American Goddard Space Flight Center began decoding its data." It was then officially announced that LuGRE had received and tracked signals for the first time in history on the surface of the Moon, and had identified a navigation point more than 360,000 kilometers from Earth.
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