New GPS-like lunar navigation system is like having Google Maps on the Moon

This new GPS-like lunar navigation system is like having Google Maps on the Moon.

When exploring outer space, you need to know where you are going, and this system may just make astronauts’ lives easier.

But exploring with minimal communication is a task and a half.

So, with real-time information and ways to relieve stress from onboard systems, this new navigation apparatus could change the game.

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The Moon has been explored by both scientists and astronauts for decades now.

From NASA recently launching a project to land humans on the Moon for the first time in 54 years to a new rover set to unlock one of the Moon’s greatest unsolved mysteries, it’s an area that is in high demand.

But, as there is no GPS like on Earth, it isn’t the easiest task to navigate, which is where this new tech comes in.

GMV has announced a new release – LUPIN, which is set to take lunar exploration to the next level.

“Unlike the Earth, the Moon does not have a positioning satellite infrastructure like the Global Positioning System (GPS),” GMV stated.

“This means that spacecraft and rovers are unable to determine their precise location in real time. Instead, they have to rely upon internal calculations and data sent from Earth,” the company continued.

“To overcome these restrictions, GMV has developed the LUPIN lunar navigation prototype for the ESA.”

The new technology advancement, LUPIN, was tested in the Canary Islands and is an ‘innovative initiative of the European Space Agency with the aim of ‘developing a prototype navigation system to simulate the signals that lunar surface rovers are expected to receive in the future’.

Thanks to LUPIN, the end result will be like GPS for the moon and can be used by both astronauts and rovers.

Currently, the moon doesn’t have satellites and GPS like we do, and those exploring the Moon are forced to rely on calculations done internally or Earth-sent data.

So, astronauts’ lives could be made a whole lot easier over the next 10 years with GMV stating that the advanced tech is set to ‘reduce the current dependency on onboard systems that use complex algorithms to determine relative locations, and this will optimize the performance and efficiency of lunar surface exploration vehicles.’

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