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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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This article is tagged with Artemis mission, Firefly Aerospace, Gateway, Goddard Space Flight Center, LuGRE, Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment, Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter, moon navigation, NASA, optical navigation, optimetrics, Radiometrics and posted in Featured Stories, GNSS, Latest News

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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This article is tagged with Artemis mission, Bobcat-1, CubeSat, Glenn Research Center, Goddard Space Flight Center, International Space Station, multi-GNSS, NASA, SCAN, SCaN testbed, Space Communications and Navigation, spacecraft and posted in Featured Stories, GNSS, Latest News

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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This article is tagged with Artemis mission, Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R, GNSS signals, Goddard Space Flight Center, Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission (MMS), NASA, side lobe signals, Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN) program, Space Service Volume and posted in Latest News

FAA and NASA complete drone demonstrations for UTM

November 23, 2020

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has concluded the second phase of its Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Traffic Management […]

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This article is tagged with drone demonstrations, FAA, NASA, UAS, UAS test site, UAV, UAV traffic management system, UTM and posted in Latest News, UAV/UVG

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Spirent Federal to support NASA for GNSS testing

November 17, 2020

NASA has selected Spirent Federal Systems for testing GNSS for lunar exploration. The U.S. Space-Based Positioning, Navigation and […]

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This article is tagged with civil space systems, Ellen Hall, GNSS solution, GNSS testing, lunar exploration, NASA, Spirent Federal Systems and posted in Latest News

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Fourth GPS III satellite successfully launched

November 5, 2020

UPDATE: The U.S. Space Force, Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) and its mission partners successfully launched the […]

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This article is tagged with 2 SOPS, Falcon 9, GPS III, GPS III SV04, Lockheed Martin, NASA, satellite launch, SpaceX, U.S. Space Force and posted in Featured Stories, GNSS, Latest News

Artist's concept of the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft orbiting the Bennu asteroid. (Image: NASA)

Optical navigation enables sample collection from asteroid

October 20, 2020

NASA took on a Herculean precision positioning task that culminated Oct. 20 with a spacecraft sampling the surface […]

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This article is tagged with Goddard, KinetX, lidar, NASA, Natural Feature Tracking, optical mapping, OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, Touch-And-Go and posted in Featured Stories, Latest News, Mapping

GPS III SV04 rests atop a Falcon 9 rocket, waiting to be sent into orbit. (Photo: SpaceX)

Aborted launch of GPS III SV04 results in hardware analysis

October 20, 2020

The aborted launch of the fourth GPS III satellite has sparked an investigation into the SpaceX Falcon 9’s […]

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This article is tagged with GPS III, GPS III SV04, Merlin engine, NASA, satellite launch, SpaceX, SpaceX Falcon 9 and posted in GNSS, Latest News