TAG: Artemis mission

Artist’s rendering: NASA

ESA seeks companies to help guide Moon missions

October 4, 2022

The European Space Agency (ESA) is looking for companies interested in helping create a constellation of lunar satellites […]


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Artistic rendering of LuGRE and the GNSS constellations. In reality, the Earth-based GNSS constellations take up less than 10 degrees in the sky, as seen from the Moon. (Image: NASA/Dave Ryan)

NASA moon mission set to break record in navigation signal test

June 8, 2022

Collaboration powers GPS and Galileo navigation experiment By Danny Baird ​NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center As the Artemis […]


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Artist's conceptualization of Artemis astronauts using LunaNet services on the Moon. a unique approach to lunar communications and navigation. The LunaNet communications and navigation architecture will enable the precision navigation required for crewed missions to the Moon and place our astronauts closer to scientifically significant lunar sites, enhancing the our missions’ scientific output. (Image: NASA/Resse Patillo)

NASA analyzes navigation needs of Artemis Moon missions

March 29, 2021

Space communications and navigation engineers at NASA are evaluating the navigation needs for the Artemis program, including identifying […]


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The SCaN Testbed prior to launch to the International Space Station. (Photo: NASA)

NASA advancing GNSS capabilities for spacecraft

January 14, 2021

NASA’s Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN) program is developing capabilities that will allow missions at high altitudes to […]


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A graphic detailing the different areas of GNSS coverage. (Credits: NASA)

NASA explores upper limits of GNSS for Artemis mission

January 5, 2021

By Danny Baird ​NASA’s Space Communications and Navigation program office The Artemis generation of lunar explorers will establish […]


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Artemis missions: Flown on the Orion spacecraft, the missions will gather information to help take humans to Mars. (Artist’s concept: NASA)

NASA’s Orion travels with Honeywell, Lockheed Martin

June 26, 2020

Honeywell, under a contract with Lockheed Martin, will supply guidance and navigation systems for NASA’s upcoming Artemis missions, […]


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Artist’s concept of NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale mission consists of four identically equipped observatories that rely on Navigator GPS to maintain an exacting orbit that is at its highest point nearly half-way to the Moon. (Image: NASA)

NASA wants to use GPS at the Moon for Artemis missions

July 11, 2019

News from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center GPS could be used to pilot in and around lunar orbit […]


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