Moon

On Earth, “we have GPS, and it’s easy to take advantage of that and not think about all the technology that goes into it,” says Alvin Yew, a research engineer at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. “But now when we’re on the moon, we just don’t have that.” Inspired by previous research ...

“ESA’s Lunar Pathfinder mission will help verify the performance of new lunar navigation techniques in development at NASA,” said JJ Miller, Deputy Director of Policy and Strategic Communications for NASA’s Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN) program at NASA Headquarters in Washington. “This project is built on the long collaboration between NASA and ESA within the ...