Comment on NASA and Italy to send first GNSS receiver to the Moon by Su Leone

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A GNSS receiver is scheduled to land on the Moon in 2023, sent by NASA and the Italian Space Agency (ASI). The innovative GPS and Galileo receiver, provided by Qascom, will experiment with satellite-based positioning on the lunar surface. The NEIL payload will be integrated into the Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment (LuGRE), an ASI/NASA cooperation framework to develop activities in lunar and cislunar environments. For the first time in history, GNSS positioning will be tested at almost 400,000 kilometers from Earth. “This experiment is of strategic importance for Italy, since it will bring our technology to the Moon surface,” stated the Italian Space Agency.