LAPS: Lunar Autonomous Positioning System
NASA TechPort describes LAPS as a completed Center Innovation Fund project proposing autonomous lunar positioning, navigation, and timing services from coordinated orbital and surface resources. Its synchronization, error-correction, and distributed-estimation approach is intended to improve surface localization for precision landing, far-side science, and resource prospecting without dedicated GPS-like infrastructure.
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- Domains
- spaceflight
- Name
- LAPS: Lunar Autonomous Positioning System
- Status
- completed
- Types
- developmentresearch
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- Description
- NASA TechPort describes LAPS as a completed Center Innovation Fund project proposing autonomous lunar positioning, navigation, and timing services from coordinated orbital and surface resources. Its synchronization, error-correction, and distributed-estimation approach is intended to improve surface localization for precision landing, far-side science, and resource prospecting without dedicated GPS-like infrastructure.
- End Date
- 2020-09-30
- Leads
- Participants
- Start Date
- 2019-10-01
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- Creation Time
- August 14, 2026 at 05:40:35 UTC
- Updated Time
- August 14, 2026 at 05:40:35 UTC
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