In what can only be described as a “why didn’t we think of this sooner” moment, NASA has officially brought GPS to the Moon. Yup, the same technology that helps you find the nearest Starbucks just made its lunar debut. The breakthrough came courtesy of Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander, which stuck its landing on March 2, becoming the first commercial moon taxi to touch down on our celestial neighbor successfully. But the real star of the show is a little experiment called LuGRE (Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment), which has been busy proving that Earth’s GPS signals can reach way farther than anyone expected. .stk-d681bba {box-shadow:0 0 0 2px rgba(120, 120, 120, 0.1) !important;}.stk-d681bba-container{background-color:#f3f3f3 !important;}.stk-d681bba-container:before{background-color:#f3f3f3 !important;} .stk-fff85bd {margin-left:-20px !important;}.stk-fff85bd .stk–svg-wrapper .stk–inner-svg svg:last-child{opacity:0.7 !important;}.stk-fff85bd .stk–svg-wrapper .stk–inner-svg svg:last-child, .stk-fff85bd .stk–svg-wrapper .stk–inner-svg svg:last-child :is(g, path, rect, polygon, ellipse){fill:var(–stk-global-color-56583, #911d9c) !important;} .stk-75422ff {margin-left:-17px !important;}.stk-75422ff .stk-block-text__text{font-size:16px !important;font-weight:300 !important;font-style:normal !important;font-family:”Golos Text”, Sans-serif !important;}@media screen and (max-width: 1023px){.stk-75422ff .stk-block-text__text{font-size:16px !important;}}“On Earth we can use GNSS signals to navigate in everything from smartphones to airplanes,” says Kevin Coggins, NASA’s SCaN deputy associate administrator, who’s clearly excited about this cosmic GPS expansion. “Now, LuGRE shows us that we can successfully acquire and track GNSS signals at the Moon.” Breaking Records Like They’re Nothing Before even reaching the Moon, LuGRE was already showing off. On January 21, it snagged GPS signals from a mind-boggling 209,900 miles up – setting a new NASA record. By February 20, it had pushed that record to 243,000 miles while chilling in lunar orbit,…NASA’s GPS technology breaks records, reaches moon for first time