GNSS on the moon: Lunar PNT era begins

GNSS on the moon: Lunar PNT era begins

Historical context of GNSS in space The latest historic chapter in GNSS for space users was launched, as one would expect, at an Institute of Navigation (ION) GNSS+ conference — the one in Miami in 2019 — by a handful of technical and policy experts well positioned to “Go for the Gold” — GNSS on the moon! Thus, liquid refreshments in hand, the Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment (LuGRE) concept was born, amongst excited discussion and scribbling on n…

Colonizing the Moon has become one of the most important missions of the major space agencies. The reason is that, by permanently installing ourselves there, space travel to more remote places will be easier to perform as there is no atmosphere that makes it difficult to launch a rocket. But in order to make the Moon habitable, many tests and previous missions are necessary. One of them is to be able to locate objects, installations, vehicles an…