ST. LOUIS — The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is working with NASA to develop a positioning and navigation system to guide visitors around the surface of the moon “as accurately and as safely as GPS does on Earth,” NGA’s director Vice Adm. Frank Whitworth said May 22.
In a keynote speech at the GEOINT 2023 symposium, Whitworth said NGA’s new project to develop a lunar reference system is part of the agency’s broader goal to support civil and military space operations.
He noted that NGA’s predecessor, the Defense Mapping Agency, mapped the moon ahead…
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