India, March 6 -- NASA and the Italian Space Agency made a historic achievement by receiving Earth-based navigation signals on Moon.
The U.S. space agency announced that on Monday, the Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment, or LuGRE, became the first technology demonstration to acquire and track GPS signals on the Moon's surface.
The LuGRE payload is a joint effort between NASA and the Italian Space Agency to demonstrate the viability of using existing GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) signals for positioning, navigation, and timing on the Moon.
The LuGRE payload's success in lunar orbit and on the surface indicates that signals from the GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) can be received and tracked on the Moon. These results mea...