An Italian-made instrument on the Moon
has received signals from the Earth for the first time, the
Italian Space Agency (ASI) said Monday.
For the first time, ASI said, signals from navigation satellites
active in Earth's orbit have been received on the Moon.
The result, as stated on the ASI website, "is due to the LuGre
satellite receiver, the result of an agreement between ASI and
NASA and built in Italy by Qascom, with the scientific support
of the Polytechnic University of Turin."
The day after its arrival on the lunar soil aboard the private
Blue Ghost lander of the company Firefly Aerospace, LuGre was
switched on at 7:10 Italian time Monday and received both GPS
signals and those of the European Galileo constellation.
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