NASA and the Italian Space Agency's Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment succeeded in its first attempt to acquire Earth-based navigation signals from the moon on March 3, 2025. NASA and the Italian Space ...

NASA and partners are developing backpack-sized technology for future Moon explorers that will allow them to map and navigate the lunar surface in the darkness of the high polar regions to within a ...

News from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center GPS could be used to pilot in and around lunar orbit during future Artemis missions. A team at NASA is developing a special receiver that would be able to ...

Earth-orbiting GNSS may enable navigation on the Moon and in cislunar space, NASA says. Credit: NASA NASA and the Italian Space Agency have acquired GPS and Galileo global navigation satellite system ...

If you’re driving your car from Portland to Merced, you probably rely on GPS to see where you are. But what if you’re driving your Moon rover from Oceanus Procellarum to the Sea of Tranquility?

In December 1968, the Apollo 8 mission carried three astronauts on a trip around the Moon— further than anyone had ever gone before. For a mission that far, navigation was the biggest unknown factor.

“You have arrived at your destination.” This phrase, delivered with robotic cadence, is familiar to anyone who uses satellite navigation systems to guide them on sightseeing strolls, cross-country ...

WASHINGTON — The space-based technology that lets GPS-equipped motorists constantly update their precise location will undergo a major test of its ability to rapidly pinpoint the location and ...