The Moon is 'closer', thanks to the Lugre mission carried out by the Italian Space Agency and NASA. From the Moon, in fact, come the first public satellite navigation data, collected and disseminated by NASA and Asi. The information, now accessible to the international scientific community, comes from the Italian-American Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment mission, which 'demonstrated how the signals of the GPS and Galileo satellites can be used beyond the Earth's orbit and on the lunar surface'.
An important part was played by Italy, since it was Qascom, a company based in Bassano del Grappa, that developed Lugre, an all-Italian instrument made for Asi. It is an 'innovative instrument that allows the precise measurement of position in space, even in environments very distant from the Earth'. Not only that, the scientific part was taken care of by the Turin Polytechnic, which supported Asi with a specific centre for processing scientific data.
