India, March 5 -- For the first time ever, NASA used GPS on the Moon. This means that for the first time, signals from the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) were received and tracked on the Moon.

The milestone was achieved by NASA and the Italian Space Agency on March 3 when the Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment (LuGRE) received and tracked GPS signals.

These results mean Artemis missions, or other exploration missions, could benefit from these signals to accurately and autonomously determine their position, velocity, and time, NASA said.

GNSS signals transmit information about positioning, navigation and timing using radio waves and are broadcast by satellites orbiting the Earth.

There are several GNSS constellations provided by...