Who does not know NASA today? Whenever things related to space satellite etc. come to the fore and the name of NASA does not come there, it is absolutely wrong to say that. For your information, let us tell you that NASA is an independent organization of the US government. Whose work is responsible for the space program, tracking all kinds of movements related to space and space research. By the way, the main task of NASA is to keep an eye on the activities happening in space. Due to which the common citizen keeps getting to know about new information related to space.
NASA assures to complete its mission successfully every time. Due to this, the space agency NASA is once again considering the issue of navigation and safety. In this mission, NASA wants to test the navigation system on the Moon. Which uses signals from Earth’s Global Navigation Satellite System. But in places around the moon. which has never been done before.
GPS Navigation System for the First Time on the Moon
For your information, let us tell you that NASA is preparing to send this experimental payload to the moon. Which according to NASA will be delivered by the Blue Ghost lander of Firefly Aerospace before the year 2024. The Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) refers to satellite constellations and whose function is to transmit position, time and navigation signals from space to receivers on Earth. The most commonly used GNSS system is the GPS, which the US Space Force is responsible for operating.
NASA’s Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment (LUGRE), developed in partnership with the Space Agency (ASI), will attempt to calculate location for the first time on the lunar surface during its journey to the Moon. As it travels to the Moon, LuGRE will receive signals from both GPS and Europe’s own GNSS constellation, Galileo. The navigation and receiver in orbit around the Moon will also conduct experiments at different altitudes.
After landing on the Moon with Blue Ghost, the Lugre receiver will wave its antenna. It will collect data in 12 days or possibly more. The collected data will be sent to Earth and used to further develop the operational Lunar GNSS system for future missions to the Moon.
Moving on to this issues regarding GNSS. That is, expanding that system of services to aviation, terrestrial and maritime users to include the rapidly growing space sector. James J. Miller, Deputy Director of Policy and Strategic Communications within NASA’s Space Communications and Navigation (SCAN) program. According to one of his statements, what was available at the time of the Apollo missions would greatly improve its shortcomings.
LuGRE is also part of efforts to enhance the high-altitude capabilities of GNSS, a system that space missions have long relied on for navigation and timekeeping. In recent years, the system’s reach has been found to include those missions. It has a distance between approximately 1,800 miles (2,896 km) and an altitude of 22,000 miles (35,405 km). The Magnetospheric Multiscale mission by NASA in 2016 used a GPS system to reach a record-breaking altitude of 43,500 miles (70,000 km) above Earth.
