Thales Alenia Space To Build Moonlight Satellites For Lunar GPS

lunar satellite navigation rendering

A rendering of four lunar elliptical orbit navigation satellites.

Credit: Thales Alenia Space/Briot
Thales Alenia Space (TAS) says it has secured the contract from sister company Telespazio to build the satellites for the European Space Agency’s (ESA) planned Moonlight lunar navigation system. ESA in October said Moonlight is supposed to provide the infrastructure of four navigation satellites and...
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