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Lunar Pathfinder
Comms · ESA / SSTL
Lunar Pathfinder is ESA's communications relay satellite, built by SSTL and funded with the UK Space Agency.
It carries a GNSS receiver that attempts to lock weak GPS and Galileo signals from Earth at lunar distance.
Mission brief
It is on Blue Ghost Mission 2.
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Lunar Pathfinder relay satellite (rideshare host stack)
ESA/SSTL commercial lunar comms relay deployed with Blue Ghost Mission 2 / Elytra orbital segment. · Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL)CLPS CS-3 delivery (Blue Ghost M2 + Lunar Pathfinder)
NASA's CS-3 task order to Firefly covers Blue Ghost Mission 2's far-side landing and delivery of ESA's Lunar Pathfinder into lunar orbit. · Firefly AerospaceLunar Pathfinder GNSS navigation demo (ESA/UKSA)
A GNSS receiver on ESA's Lunar Pathfinder, funded with UKSA, tries to lock weak GPS and Galileo signals from Earth at the Moon. · European Engineering & Consultancy Ltd (EECL)Related cargo
Lunar Surface Electromagnetics Experiment-Night
Blue Ghost Mission 2JPL User Terminal S-band Proximity-1 (BG-M2)
Blue Ghost Mission 2Rashid 2 rover (MBRSC on BG-M2)
Blue Ghost Mission 2Elytra Dark orbital vehicle (BG-M2 stack)
Blue Ghost Mission 2Elytra RF-cal deployable antenna (MMA Space)
Blue Ghost Mission 2Sources
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