Firefly’s Blue Ghost land module captured its first sunrise on the moon.
Unpublished GPS navigation on the moon happened with Blue Ghost’s historic rent and promises to help astronauts from future missions on the lunar surface.
A do Blue Ghost From Firefly Aerospace, which last day 2 became the first module to land vertically on the moon, also allowed NASA to navigate with GPS signals for the surface of the earth’s natural satellite.
Inexually at distances as large as here to the moon (literally), traditional GPS systems are replaced by NASA – in partnership with the Italian space agency at Lunar Gnss Receiver Experiment (Lugre) – by a global satellite navigation system (GNSS).
The system autonomously measures time, speed and position, which can be fundamental to more accurate navigation on the moon surface in future missions such as the Artemis program.
Even before landing, Lugre established a new recordon 21 January, when purchasing the GNSS signal the highest altitude, 337 thousand kilometers from Earthduring your trip to the moon. The intensity of the signal continued to increase as the landing module approached the lunar orbit, reaching a maximum of 391 thousand kilometers land February 20th.
Artistic concept of the use load leaps in Blue Ghost and its three main records in transit for the moon, lunar orbit and on the surface of the moon.
By incorporating GNSS signs, mission engineers expect to reduce the (so far necessary) frequent human supervision.
“On Earth we can use GNSS signals to navigate everything from smartphones to airplanes. Now, the blackening shows us that we can acquire and successfully follow GNSS signals on the moon, ”says NASA Associate Associate Administrator Kevin Coggins for the Space Communications and Navigation Program (Scan) in.
Grega uses the GNSS GPS and Galileo constellations, which are based on a network of medium terrestrial orbit satellites. During the next two weeks, Grega will continue to collect data while the other instruments of the landing module perform their experiences.
