NASA Planning for Navigation on Moon, Mars

Credit: NASA/JPL
Spaceflight operations planners at NASA are studying new ways to navigate beyond low Earth orbit, where the Global Positioning System that serves well on the space shuttle and International Space Station (ISS) won't work. The GPS constellation orbits at 20,200 km. (12,552 mi.), well above the...

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