Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment (LuGRE)
First receiver to use GPS on the Moon's surface
Qascom
Italian company specializing in satellite navigation security and space receivers. It was the industry partner on LuGRE, the receiver that made the first GPS and Galileo navigation fix on the Moon's surface in March 2025. (1 product in the atlas)
Founded in 2004 by three engineers who self-financed the company, per its About page; no outside funding rounds are public.
Products, by altitude
High orbits · 2,000–35,786 km
Retired
Milestones
- Mar 2025 The LuGRE receiver, built with industry partner Qascom for NASA and the Italian Space Agency, acquired GPS and Galileo signals on the lunar surface and achieved the first navigation fix there.1
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