<ul><li>Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost becomes the first commercial lunar lander to successfully touchdown on the moon’s surface.</li><li>NASA's joint public-private mission successfully demonstrated the use of Earth-based GPS signals on the lunar surface, marking a major step for future Artemis missions.</li><li>The Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment (LuGRE) broke NASA’s record for highest altitude GNSS signal acquisition while traveling to the moon, reaching 243,000 miles from Earth after reaching lunar orbit on February 20.</li><li>LuGRE relies on GPS and Galileo constellations to autonomously measure time, velocity, and position, enabling accurate navigation for future moon missions.</li></ul>

NASA uses GPS on the moon for the first time

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