The Spanish company GMV brings GPS to the moon

If you have ever taken a wrong turn in the sea of ​​calm and ended up with a loss in the vicinity of storms, you are lucky, because the moon gets GPS, somewhat. GMV, Spanish capital business group with extensive experience in the space sector, The moon navigation system is closer to GPS.

The ambitious project, called Lupine, aims to help astronauts, industrialists and even settlers in the future to move more easily across the moon. in For the lubin, GMV explains part of the problem of current navigation systems on the moon. The company said: “The current communications also depend on the direct vision with the Earth, or on the use of relay moons in the orbit of the moon. These factors generate the areas of communication shadows and delay times, and this makes it difficult to make immediate decisions.”

GMV is developing Lupine with the European Space Agency, a working partnership dating back to the first government contract in GMV in 1984. Technology benefits from the current satellites around the moon and signs similar to the GPS (GPS) to help Rovers and astronauts find their exact location in the actual time on the moon.

“These are satellite signals that will be used in the same way as the GPS signals on Earth, although satellites in this case will be in orbit around the moon. This system will also be adapted to certain areas of attention (for example, the southern moon, the distant side of the moon, and the shaded areas permanently),” the company adds.

in “With this program, we bring Europe closer to the establishment of human beings on the surface of the moon, and perhaps, this will be a starting point towards exploring Mars or human existence on Mars,” said project manager, Stephen Kai.

Engadget communicated with GMV with questions about Lubin’s accuracy, basic technology, and publishing road map. We will update this article when we hear again.